{"id":3797,"date":"2012-10-11T17:56:57","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T23:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/?p=3797"},"modified":"2012-10-12T17:13:54","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T23:13:54","slug":"dinner-with-the-missionaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/dinner-with-the-missionaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinner with Our Missionaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you weren&#8217;t aware, DSC has a\u00c2\u00a0relatively\u00c2\u00a0new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/ministries\/missions\/blog\/\">Missions Blog<\/a> that tracks closely with our efforts and\u00c2\u00a0partnerships\u00c2\u00a0locally and around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of our upcoming Missions Emphasis Week (October 21-24), Clint, our Missions Director, recently published a blog with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/ministries\/missions\/blog\/?p=1315\">an invitation to dinner<\/a> with three of DSC&#8217;s missionaries.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the details:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Missions Emphasis Sunday is October 21st this year.\u00c2\u00a0 And as part of the celebration, we will be hosting a dinner with three of our global missionaries.\u00c2\u00a0 The night will include a silent auction, a Mediterranean dinner,\u00c2\u00a0<em>free childcare<\/em>, and a time of Testimony and Q&amp;A with the following folks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dr. Jaime Jacobo Pineda\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u201c Dr. Jacobo is our dear friend and partner from Guatemala with whom we seek to serve the Rabinal Achi through\u00c2\u00a0Community Health Evangelism.<\/li>\n<li>Hugo W.\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u201c Hugo is the Director of\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arabworldmedia.org\/\">Arab World Media (AWM)<\/a>. AWM exists to &#8220;To see mature, multiplying churches among all Muslim peoples of the Arab world.&#8221; Not only do we support AWM from our annual missions budget, our hopes are that as we raise up a few\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/ministries\/missions\/global\/sunrise_north_africa_partnership\/\">SNAP<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0families to move to North Africa, they will be able to benefit directly from AWM&#8217;s ministry on the ground both now and in the future. Please\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arabworldmedia.org\/index.php\/discuss\/40-blog\/235-praying-for-morocco\">pray<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0toward this end even now.<\/li>\n<li>Chuck Harper\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u201c Chuck is DSC&#8217;s missionary in residence who recently accepted a new position at\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.westernindian.org\/\">Western Indian Ministries<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0as the General Director.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yes, you read that right: Childcare is free and includes a meal and a program.<\/p>\n<p>Seating is limited to the first 50 adults who RSVP and pay\u00c2\u00a0($20 per person) for their seat. You can\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eservicepayments.com\/cgi-bin\/Vanco_ver3.vps?appver3=tYgT1GfNxRUldiimjHMvOafA74xaoD2eBAJMmXOL7npSrmZ9U_AtN0pBcgWapVsZums9tj3wI7okSf0MyMa8uhO1i3whT_N8AL3oO0R90ns=&amp;ver=3\">pay online here<\/a>, or by using check or cash in a missions envelope by dropping it in an offering box or taking it to the church office. You can RSVP by emailing\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:global@desertspringschurch.org\">global@desertspringschurch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the silent auction will include items from our\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/ministries\/missions\/global\/priorities\/\">three global core initiative regions<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0of the world (North Africa, Guatemala, and Native America).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Check back at the DSC <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/ministries\/missions\/blog\/\">Missions Blog<\/a> in the days ahead for introductions to our guest missionaries for Missions Emphasis Week. The first introduction, for\u00c2\u00a0Dr. Jaime Jacobo and Jannette Pineda, is available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/ministries\/missions\/blog\/?p=1386\">here<\/a>. Subscribe to the Missions Blog <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds2.feedburner.com\/desertspringschurch\/KBGF\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you weren&#8217;t aware, DSC has a\u00c2\u00a0relatively\u00c2\u00a0new Missions Blog that tracks closely with our efforts and\u00c2\u00a0partnerships\u00c2\u00a0locally and&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/dinner-with-the-missionaries\/\">Continue Reading &rsaquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[59],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3797"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3801,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797\/revisions\/3801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}