www.friendsmission.com\/five-year-goal<\/a>. As we send more missionaries and launch new fields we want to provide a way for our children and youth to participate in this effort and to also be inspired by stories like William\u2019s that they too can become pioneer missionaries among the unreached peoples of the world.<\/p>\nWould you find a way to put these lessons to good use? Maybe it will be in your own home with your children or grandchildren. Maybe it will be in the Sunday school program of your church. Maybe a kid\u2019s club, youth group, or a small group of adults. This material will not bear fruit unless it is used. Please find a way to use it. Someone\u2019s life and eternal destiny could be impacted by those who take the time to work through these lessons.<\/p>\n
Your fellow servant in Christ,<\/p>\n
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\nTo find out more about William Abel and also get the full story of the group of Friends churches in Bolivia called Iglesia Nacional Evang\u00e9lica Los Amigos<\/em> (INELA), I highly recommend a book by Nancy Thomas entitled A Long Walk, A Gradual Ascent<\/em>. It is available through Amazon.com. Nancy and her husband, Harold, served for many years in Bolivia as missionaries and worked with this group of churches. In writing the book a team of Bolivian Friends helped them with research and provided insights that helped shape the content of the chapters. It is well written and well worth your time!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dear Children\u2019s Workers, Pastors, and Leaders, Ever since I was a child I have been fascinated by the story of William Abel, a Native American from the Friends Church who in 1919 left Southern California and traveled to La Paz, Bolivia, to begin reaching a Native American group called the Aymaras with the Gospel. Even […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"full","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-20303","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry","6":"has-post-thumbnail"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20303"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20318,"href":"https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20303\/revisions\/20318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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There are two verses in John chapter 12 that describe really well William\u2019s life and ministry. Here they are in the version of the Bible called The Message<\/em>: \u201c\u2026Unless a grain of wheat is buried in the ground, dead to the world, it is never more than a grain of wheat. But if it is buried, it sprouts and reproduces itself many times over. In the same way, anyone who holds on to life just as it is destroys that life. But if you let it go, reckless in your love, you\u2019ll have it forever, real and eternal.\u201d<\/p>\n