{"id":7507,"date":"2021-05-19T01:49:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T01:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=7507"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:01","slug":"the-next-sending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=7507","title":{"rendered":"THE NEXT SENDING"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Then Jesus said to his disciples, &#8216;The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.'&#8221; (Matt 9:37-38)\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I reflect on God&#8217;s sending my family to Haiti in 2013, several aspects of that sending stand out years later:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>It was out of the blue.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>We hesitated &#8211; briefly &#8211; to say &#8220;yes&#8221;.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>The sending was to Melissa and me and the family equally.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>It was scary and way out of our comfort zone.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>It was confirmed in multiple ways.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>It took two years to launch.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>God surrounded us with an incredible group of people to support us as we were sent.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>The field we were sent to brought us greater joy than we ever anticipated.<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I consider the future and as I (somewhat) patiently await God&#8217;s next &#8220;sending&#8221;, I can&#8217;t help wondering in what ways the next might resemble the first.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Then Jesus said to his disciples, &#8216;The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.&#8217;&#8221; (Matt 9:37-38)\u00a0 When I reflect on God&#8217;s sending my family to Haiti in 2013, several aspects of that sending stand out years later:\u00a0 As I [&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-7507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7507","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=7507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7508,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7507\/revisions\/7508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}