{"id":92,"date":"2007-09-07T21:38:19","date_gmt":"2007-09-07T20:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greetings.gillespiesonline.com\/?p=92"},"modified":"2019-04-30T17:31:52","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T21:31:52","slug":"we-are-an-offering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobgillespie.org\/?p=92","title":{"rendered":"We are an offering&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"92\" class=\"elementor elementor-92\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-30e3ac4d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"30e3ac4d\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-342bc1bd\" data-id=\"342bc1bd\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-67a41937 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"67a41937\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Lord, use our voices. Lord, use our hands.<br \/>Lord, use our lives; they are Yours.<br \/>We are an offering; We are an offering.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">(2006 CCLI. All rights reserved.)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">This is our prayer and the desire for our ministry. As you pray for us this month, <strong>please pray that God will use our voices, our hands, and our lives in Training the Next Generaton<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p><p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">We&#8217;re enjoying cooler, rainy\u00a0weather &#8211; for a few more weeks. <strong>Praise God!<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p><p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Bob loves his classes this year; I think he always does since he loves to teach. He&#8217;s teaching 7\/8 Science; 9\/10 Advanced 20th Century History; and 11\/12 Government. No matter what Bob teaches (science, history, or Bible), his goal is to impart a Biblical worldview. <strong>Please pray that his students will all learn to think through things for themselves in a Biblical framework.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p><p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">Three other technicians have left the field for home assignment, so a lot more technical needs are coming my way.\u00a0 However, <strong>I&#8217;m praising God<\/strong> for a short term co-worker who has technical skills. He works in our mission office part of the time, then comes out to Sahel to help however he can. What a blessing!<\/span><\/p><p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Sahel Academy needs teachers. We are all overloaded right now. Specifically, we <strong>urgently<\/strong> need one math teacher ((better yet, two) for the second semester starting in January. Another elementary teacher would also allow us to split some of the elementary grades. A principal would help with the workload for all of us as we&#8217;re each trying to cover some of those responsibilities. <span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobgillespie.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/grades5-6.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1264\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bobgillespie.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/grades5-6-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bobgillespie.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/grades5-6-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bobgillespie.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/grades5-6.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/span>Please pray that God would provide these teachers NOW! (OK &#8211; in His time.) For next year, we need either a history or a science teacher. We&#8217;ll also need a math teacher (if the one above doesn&#8217;t stay) and two elementary teachers. <strong>Please pray for God&#8217;s people for these positions.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p><p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Over the past few years, Sahel Academy has begun to accept students from non-mission and\/or non-Christian homes. We see this as an extension of the evangelistic outreach of the missionary community. Since what we teach and communicate here at Sahel is life-changing, we want to share it with others. Please pray for the students and their families who come to us not knowing the Lord. <strong>Pray that God&#8217;s message of salvation will be clearly imparted to them through what they hear from us and see in\u00a0our lives\u00a0here at Sahel.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p><p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Northern Niger is experiencing political problems; Agadez is under military command. All missionaries and embassy people have officially left, although a few remain behind without their agency support. Please pray for the peace and stability of Niger; <strong>pray that missionaries would soon be able to return to Agadez.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p><p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">Continue to <strong>pray for Boubacar<\/strong>, that the seed that has been planted will fester and germinate within his heart.<\/span><\/p><p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">We&#8217;re <strong>praising God<\/strong> this month for 31 years of marriage. What a journey this has been!<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lord, use our voices. Lord, use our hands.Lord, use our lives; they are Yours.We are an offering; We are an offering.(2006 CCLI. All rights reserved.) This is our prayer and the desire for our ministry. 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