{"id":10708,"date":"2021-12-08T03:23:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T03:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=10708"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:37","slug":"new-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=10708","title":{"rendered":"NEW DIRECTION"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My students don&#8217;t know yet, but the announcement was made to my co-workers today, so I can officially announce it here as well:<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the second time in a decade, I am leaving a teaching job at Hauser to enter missionary work.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am just as confident of God&#8217;s call and just as scared by the prospect as the first time around.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Melissa and I are staying put in Columbus, Indiana, but I will be joining the staff of Missions Resource International in January. In short, MRI makes microloans possible in struggling communities overseas.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have 11 school days left at Hauser. I am thankful for the opportunity this past year to teach there but also excited about this new opportunity. I will share more details soon.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My students don&#8217;t know yet, but the announcement was made to my co-workers today, so I can officially announce it here as well: For the second time in a decade, I am leaving a teaching job at Hauser to enter missionary work.\u00a0 I am just as confident of God&#8217;s call and just as scared by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10709,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10708\/revisions\/10709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}