{"id":2059,"date":"2006-10-10T05:42:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-10T11:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2059"},"modified":"2007-02-15T10:43:20","modified_gmt":"2007-02-15T16:43:20","slug":"winding-down-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/winding-down-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Winding down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re on our last full day here in Jos, Nigeria.<br \/>\nWe did a lot of shopping this morning (some more than others). The rest of us did a lot of window shopping as the shop keepers did there best to sell the Paturies (sp?) their wares.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;re eating our last meal at the Click Net and we&#8217;ll have a time to say our good byes to the boys at TH and Gidan Bega this afternoon. The two boys I prayed with last week to receive Christ have been begging me for an EvangeCube that I showed them the Gospel message with.<br \/>\nI told them they had to promise me to show it to at least 10 people if I give it to them. So I&#8217;ll bring them to Luke and Isaiah today before we head back home.<br \/>\nYesterday we did shopping in the morning and then went to a church at the Motorpark.<br \/>\nThe Motorpark is basically a large field where people bring their cars and wait for riders to take trips across the country.<br \/>\nYou can probably find a ride to any part of the country if you&#8217;re willing to wait for enough other riders to make it profitable for the car owner and driver.<br \/>\nThe church at the Motorpark meets in a large building with wooden benches and dirt floors. Their numbers are few, but they&#8217;ve doubled in size since last year.<br \/>\nThe church was a large size years ago before fighting broke out between the Muslims and Christians. The church dispersed after that but everyday a group of women would continue to meet in the afternoon and pray for God to work.<br \/>\nNow their numbers have at least trippled and they are excited and on fire for God.<br \/>\nThe chief is blind himself and he welcomed us to the area but our Nigerian friends were worried for our safety after seeing some anti-American resentment by some.<br \/>\nVery few whites have visited the area and we were looking forward to seeing it &#8211; some of us for the first time.<br \/>\nMembers of the group have been there before and some did medical mission work there while I was at Bad Boys last week.<br \/>\nSo our stay there was very short, but in both Blind Town and the Motorpark we couldn&#8217;t keep enough tracts with us.<br \/>\nPeople see you handing out anything and they want a piece of it.<br \/>\nPray that God will speak to their hearts and their eyes will be opened by a simple tract.<br \/>\nPray that the church in the Motorpark will continue to flurish.<br \/>\nPray that the Muslims in Blind Town will see that Allah can not heal them and give them peace like our God can.<br \/>\nPray for the Muslim men that our team continues to meet and pray with.<br \/>\nPray that they will no longer be blinded or live in fear of their Muslim friends. May they accept Jesus Christ as their Savior and be bold about their faith.<br \/>\nWe fly back to America in less than 48 hours and I look forward to seeing many of you once we are back.<br \/>\nPray for our safety as we travel.<br \/>\nGod bless you all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re on our last full day here in Jos, Nigeria. We did a lot of shopping this morning (some more than others). The rest of us did a lot of window shopping as the shop keepers did there best to sell the Paturies (sp?) their wares. We&#8217;re eating our last meal at the Click Net &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/winding-down-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Winding down<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nigeria"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-xd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}