{"id":3784,"date":"2008-06-09T07:36:52","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T13:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=3784"},"modified":"2013-06-11T07:38:51","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T13:38:51","slug":"changing-roles-in-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/changing-roles-in-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing roles in ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecwaevangel.org\/blog\/in-the-background_237\/\">Mike Blythe<\/a> writes about his recent changes from being a physician at the hospital in Jos, Nigeria, to helping oversee much of SIMS IT work in the area.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting how sometimes God calls us from one ministry to the other. He may call us to the front lines, only to later call us to move into a background role &#8211; in support of others on the front line. And vice-versa. Sometimes we&#8217;re willing and ready. Sometimes we go kicking and screaming.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes we have to be pulled and pushed by those around us as well just to even get started in a ministry. What frustrations, issues have you found as God moves you from one direction to another?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Blythe writes about his recent changes from being a physician at the hospital in Jos, Nigeria, to helping oversee much of SIMS IT work in the area. It&#8217;s interesting how sometimes God calls us from one ministry to the other. He may call us to the front lines, only to later call us to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/changing-roles-in-ministry\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Changing roles in ministry<\/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":[18,17],"tags":[4659,4650,327,220],"class_list":["post-3784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-take-action","tag-community","tag-faith","tag-leadership","tag-ministry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-Z2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3784","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=3784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11104,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3784\/revisions\/11104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}