{"id":351,"date":"2009-06-01T23:36:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T22:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greetings.gillespiesonline.com\/?p=351"},"modified":"2019-04-30T16:48:46","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T20:48:46","slug":"still-training-the-next-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobgillespie.org\/?p=351","title":{"rendered":"Still Training the Next Generation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Teachers and students the world over (whose school year runs concurrent to ours) are experiencing the same feelings we at Sahel Academy are. There\u2019s amazement and relief that the year is actually over as well as excitement, anticipation and possibly apprehension about what\u2019s next. Those involved with international ministries experience more sadness at saying good-byes, not knowing when they will ever see one another again. Re-unions are a little harder to plan when your student body and staff comes from all over the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

Please pray for us as we are some of those saying good-byes. Most of you know by now that we are returning to the US for an early furlough. Please pray for our travels as we leave in just 5 days from now early on Saturday morning June 6th<\/sup>.<\/span><\/p>\n

For many reasons, it is unlikely that we will return to Niger. We\u2019ve been struggling with this decision this past half year, wanting so badly to at least finish our four-year term, but slowly seeing that God was leading us home. <\/span>We\u2019re amazed that we\u2019ve been here in Niger for three years, relieved that this busy and difficult year is finally ending, excited about returning to our friends and family in the US, sad about all the good-byes we\u2019re saying once again, and filled with anticipation for what\u2019s next for us. We believe that God is giving us a new vision. We\u2019re anticipating the time with our pastor, our sending church, our mission, and you, our supporters, who will help to confirm this new direction in our lives.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Please pray for Niger. Recent political decisions have many concerned that the country is headed in the same direction as many other African countries that seldom resolves itself without loss of life or livelihood. Here in Niamey, the large African market burned to the ground this past week which will cause extreme hardship for those whose every possession was lost without insurance to cover the loss.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

We will miss Niger and our ministry here at Sahel Academy, but we know that it is time to move on to a different ministry of Training the Next Generation. Our ministry once again will not change \u2013 only the location will change. Please pray for us as we seek to clearly know God\u2019s direction.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Teachers and students the world over (whose school year runs concurrent to ours) are experiencing the same feelings we at Sahel Academy are. There\u2019s amazement and relief that the year is actually over as well as excitement, anticipation and possibly apprehension about what\u2019s next. Those involved with international ministries experience more sadness at saying good-byes, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-second-term-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobgillespie.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobgillespie.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobgillespie.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobgillespie.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobgillespie.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobgillespie.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1186,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobgillespie.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions\/1186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobgillespie.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobgillespie.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobgillespie.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}