{"id":59,"date":"2011-03-28T19:54:25","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T17:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stearnsinafrica.com\/?page_id=59"},"modified":"2011-04-14T07:52:24","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T05:52:24","slug":"our-plans","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.stearnsinafrica.com\/?page_id=59","title":{"rendered":"Our Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While we are in Kitwe, Zambia, serving with the Centre for<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stearnsinafrica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/AfricaImg05.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-181\" title=\"AfricaImg05\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stearnsinafrica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/AfricaImg05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"141\" \/><\/a> Christian Missions (CCM: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccmzambia.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.ccmzambia.org<\/a>), we will each have a unique ministry assignment.\u00a0 CCM operates the Trust School, the tuition for which funds the CCM Bible College and Seminary.\u00a0 This ministry sends out biblically equipped young Africans to become pastors and missionaries in remote parts of Africa. \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stearnsinafrica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/AfricaImg06.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-189 alignleft\" title=\"AfricaImg06\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stearnsinafrica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/AfricaImg06.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a>My own assignment will be to teach three courses in the Bible College: Marriage &amp; Family, Romans and 1 Corinthians.\u00a0 In addition, I will help pastor a local church, Agape Baptist.\u00a0 I am praying that through the Bible College and local church God will give me a few men to pour myself into.<\/p>\n<p>While I help with the seminary and church, Shelley will homeschool Mary-Frances and Virginia part of each day.\u00a0 During the balance of the day, the two girls will serve in a few of the nearby orphanages. \u00a0David, Ella and Sadie Grace will attend the elementary school at CCM, and Lydia will teach elementary school for the duration of our stay.\u00a0 One of the Trust School\u2019s greatest needs is Physical Education, so Lydia will be bringing an entire P.E. curriculum and program to teach there.\u00a0 What an opportunity for her!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stearnsinafrica.com\/?page_id=28\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"35\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-106\" title=\"StearnsNavButton_BEGINNING\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stearnsinafrica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/StearnsNavButton_BEGINNING.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stearnsinafrica.com\/?page_id=63\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-109\" title=\"StearnsNavButton_JOIN_US\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stearnsinafrica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/StearnsNavButton_JOIN_US.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we are in Kitwe, Zambia, serving with the Centre for Christian Missions (CCM: www.ccmzambia.org), we will each have a unique ministry assignment.\u00a0 CCM operates the Trust School, the tuition for which funds the CCM Bible College and Seminary.\u00a0 This &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stearnsinafrica.com\/?page_id=59\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-59","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stearnsinafrica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stearnsinafrica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stearnsinafrica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stearnsinafrica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stearnsinafrica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"http:\/\/www.stearnsinafrica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"http:\/\/www.stearnsinafrica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stearnsinafrica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}