{"id":2099,"date":"2006-11-03T17:13:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-03T23:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2099"},"modified":"2012-05-15T16:37:21","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T22:37:21","slug":"update-from-erin-rigsby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/update-from-erin-rigsby\/","title":{"rendered":"Update from Erin Rigsby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Erin Rigsby is a 2000 graduate of UMHB and has spent the last two years in Nigeria working with the boys at Guerro, TH and Gidan Bega. She&#8217;s currently on furlough in the US and I plan to post her updates as I get them.<br \/>\nPlease keep her and the boys and missionaries in your prayers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The kids have such joy in their faces.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153How is John doing, the boy with depression?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153What do I do to become a missionary?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>These are a few of the things I have heard during the past three months.<br \/>\n&#8212; After seeing my DVD about Nigeria , numerous people have been touched by the joy in the eyes of the boys in Nigeria . These kids have every reason to be angry and bitter, yet they choose to be free and to trust in the Lord.<br \/>\n&#8212; Prayer warriors have been interceding for John, who I told you all about 5 months ago. John is OK. From what I have heard, he still battles depression, yet has not been suicidal. I have been so blessed to know that people really pray for the boys by name. Check out the attached November prayer calendar! (If you have trouble viewing it, click &#8216;view&#8217; and &#8216;print layout&#8217;)<br \/>\n&#8212; How thrilled I am when someone shows an interest in serving God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s people overseas! One goal of being back in the States is to plant seeds of interest into people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hearts.<\/p>\n<p>September was an incredible, abundant, God-filled month! He just LOVES those kids in Nigeria ! He wants hundreds of people to hear about them and I get to be the spokesperson! I spent three weeks in Chicago and was able to share with a Chinese youth group, the Moody Church congregation, ten Sunday school\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, house groups, Moody Graduate School, individuals, kids in inner \u00e2\u20ac\u201c city Chicago \u00e2\u20ac\u201c- it was SO much fun! <\/p>\n<p>PLEASE NOTE:   At the end of November I will wrap up formal speaking engagements, with the exception of being available to speaking in Sunday School classes.  I love sharing and being an advocate for the kids, but I am also getting tired and need some rest.  \ud83d\ude42  If you were planning on asking me to speak in December, please understand.  I have some open days in November and you are welcome to contact me. <\/p>\n<p>I still plan on returning to Nigeria in January.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the pics from the past 6 weeks: <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.webmissions.net\/erinrigsby\/photos.html\">www.webmissions.net\/erinrigsby\/photos.html<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Your partner in ministry,<\/p>\n<p>Erin Rigsby<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.webmissions.net\/erinrigsby\">www.webmissions.net\/erinrigsby<\/A><br \/>\n&#8220;I cannot change the world, but I can change the world for one person.&#8221;<br \/>\nMother Teresa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erin Rigsby is a 2000 graduate of UMHB and has spent the last two years in Nigeria working with the boys at Guerro, TH and Gidan Bega. She&#8217;s currently on furlough in the US and I plan to post her updates as I get them. Please keep her and the boys and missionaries in your &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/update-from-erin-rigsby\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Update from Erin Rigsby<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-xR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099","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=2099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}