{"id":23114,"date":"2022-08-09T09:42:04","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T15:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/?p=23114"},"modified":"2022-08-09T09:56:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T15:56:55","slug":"the-team-has-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/es\/news\/the-team-has-arrived\/","title":{"rendered":"The Team Has Arrived!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Carpenter-Family-2020-Website.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13191 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Carpenter-Family-2020-Website-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Carpenter-Family-2020-Website-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Carpenter-Family-2020-Website-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Carpenter-Family-2020-Website-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Carpenter-Family-2020-Website.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Thank you for praying with us! We do not fully understand all of the reasons and ways that God uses prayer as part of how he protects, helps, leads, blesses, heals, and brings about his kingdom and his will on earth as it is in heaven. But, we know that somehow prayer is a key part of how we partner with God and therefore we are so thankful for your prayers with us!<\/p>\n<p>We are planning to host some future missionaries during the next two weeks. They had to deal with some flight delays due to weather, so we are so thankful they were finally able to arrive last night, two days later than planned. These will be fun and busy days.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the key things we hope the team will learn while they are with us are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Learning about Rwanda and the Evangelical Friends Church of Rwanda<\/li>\n<li>Whole-life discipleship<\/li>\n<li>Life as missionaries<\/li>\n<li>How God is calling us to be a part of taking the gospel of Jesus to the nations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table style=\"background-color: #a6d163;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Please pray with us for:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Safety and blessing in their travels<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Good times of learning and fellowship with our Rwandan brothers and sisters<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>God to give direction to these future missionaries and EFC-Rwanda leaders towards what he is calling each one to be and do in his kingdom work<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Chelsea and the kids as they will be in Musanze while Brad and Thomas (EFM Short-Term Missionary) help host the team in Kigali this coming week<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Thank you so much!<\/p>\n<p>Brad &amp; Chelsea<\/p>\n<p>Sarai, Gideon, and Ian<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.friendsmission.com\/carpenter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-19588 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Carpenter-Button-300x75.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"75\" srcset=\"https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Carpenter-Button-300x75.jpg 300w, https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Carpenter-Button-1024x256.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Carpenter-Button-768x192.jpg 768w, https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Carpenter-Button-1536x384.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Carpenter-Button-600x150.jpg 600w, https:\/\/friendsmission.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Carpenter-Button.jpg 1667w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for praying with us! We do not fully understand all of the reasons and ways that God uses prayer as part of how he protects, helps, leads, blesses, heals, and brings about his kingdom and his will on earth as it is in heaven. 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