{"id":4782,"date":"2012-06-28T17:09:56","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T21:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/i-thank-my-god-every-time-i-remember-youin-all-my-prayers-for-all-of-you-i-always-praywith-joybecause-of-your-partnershipin"},"modified":"2012-06-28T17:09:56","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T21:09:56","slug":"i-thank-my-god-every-time-i-remember-youin-all-my-prayers-for-all-of-you-i-always-praywith-joybecause-of-your-partnershipin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/i-thank-my-god-every-time-i-remember-youin-all-my-prayers-for-all-of-you-i-always-praywith-joybecause-of-your-partnershipin.html","title":{"rendered":"Messed up in Guatemala"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Guatemala“I thank my God every time I remember you.\u00a0<\/sup>In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray\u00a0with joy\u00a0<\/sup>because of your partnership\u00a0<\/span>in the gospel from the first day\u00a0<\/span>until now,\u00a0<\/sup>being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion\u00a0<\/span>until the day of Christ Jesus” (Philippians 1:3-6 NIV).<\/p>\n

We’re proud of our Guatemala Mission Team. We sent 13 of our very best WCCers to work, serve and teach in a Church school in Guatemala City. They’ve been there all week. They will finish up their 10-day trip and return to the States this Saturday.<\/p>\n

I’ve loved reading their daily blog posts<\/a> and seeing the photos of our team. I can’t help but be moved spiritually and emotionally as I read about their experiences with the children and school teachers.<\/p>\n

I’ve also been moved hearing how close this team has grown to one another. There is something powerful about being “partners in the gospel.” There is a joy and a oneness that the Holy Spirit causes to bubble up inside when we work together for the sake of the gospel.<\/p>\n

Before our Guatemala Team left, we commissioned them. In my commissioning prayer, I prayed that they would get so “messed-up” for Jesus on this trip that they would come home and get us “messed up” too.<\/p>\n

“Messed-up?” You ask.<\/p>\n

Yes, I’m praying that God so messes up their comfort zones, their worldviews, and their hearts, that they bring their messed up selves back home and can’t go back to their normal lives. I’m praying that they are ruined for this world and only have eyes for the Kingdom of God.<\/p>\n

Looking at the faces they’ve been posting… I think my prayers are already being answered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“I thank my God every time I remember you.\u00a0In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray\u00a0with joy\u00a0because of your partnership\u00a0in the gospel from the first day\u00a0until now,\u00a0being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion\u00a0until the day of Christ Jesus” (Philippians 1:3-6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2061,1,2062],"tags":[],"location":[],"class_list":["post-4782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-religion","category-uncategorized","category-weblogs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4782"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=4782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}