{"id":891,"date":"2021-12-29T22:40:18","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T18:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abidinginhesed.com\/ministry\/?p=891"},"modified":"2022-02-17T21:05:32","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T17:05:32","slug":"where-in-the-world-are-the-wrights-wandering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abidinginhesed.com\/ministry\/2021\/12\/891","title":{"rendered":"Where in the World are the Wrights Wandering?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Shortly after arriving in Dallas, Benjamin had a meeting with part of the team of Russian speakers that he\u2019ll be working with for the next few years. Based on that meeting, everything looks like a go for us to\u00a0<strong>move to\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ukraine<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0as soon as all the logistics get worked out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UPDATE Feb 17: Obviously we are waiting for things to settle down before going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There we will be partnering with Roma churches eagerly working on translating the Bible into their own language. We told you a little about these churches in our newsletter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abidinginhesed.com\/ministry\/2021\/08\/868\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/abidinginhesed.com\/ministry\/2021\/08\/868\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>The Gift that Remains<\/em><\/a>. One contact was particularly excited that Benjamin works in Biblical Hebrew and wants him to join them the next time they\u2019re checking in the Old Testament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have some specific prayer needs for this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>We need a sponsor for&nbsp;<em>visas&nbsp;<\/em>(90 days) and then&nbsp;<em>temporary residence<\/em>&nbsp;(annual), as well as favor from all parties. It\u2019s possible this could come through a church we\u2019re partnering with, it may also be possible that another translation organization has a platform we can piggy-back on. Please pray for all the details and paperwork to come together for this, as it is really the thing we\u2019re waiting for to move.<\/li><li>Pray for wisdom and coordination regarding&nbsp;<em>Benjamin potentially taking a short trip<\/em>&nbsp;ahead of the family move to meet the parties involved and perhaps even find a place to live. (Maybe this would happen in context of checking something in the Old Testament, etc.)<\/li><li>Continue to pray for our family as we make this transition. We think this will be particularly difficult for Peregrine given his age. Unlike Mira, he\u2019s not able to look forward to a return to something vaguely familiar.<\/li><li>Pray for the right&nbsp;timing.&nbsp;It looks like&nbsp;<strong>the end of February<\/strong>&nbsp;is a good target for all parties and a reasonable amount of time to make everything happen, so we\u2019re aiming for that.<\/li><li>Pray for us to remember and improve in our Russian language skill!<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after arriving in Dallas, Benjamin had a meeting with part of the team of Russian speakers that he\u2019ll be working with for the next few years. Based on that meeting, everything looks like a go for us to\u00a0move to\u00a0Ukraine\u00a0as soon as all the logistics get worked out. UPDATE Feb 17: Obviously we are waiting&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/abidinginhesed.com\/ministry\/2021\/12\/891\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Where in the World are the Wrights Wandering?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8yKnB-en","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abidinginhesed.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abidinginhesed.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abidinginhesed.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abidinginhesed.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abidinginhesed.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abidinginhesed.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":908,"href":"https:\/\/abidinginhesed.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions\/908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abidinginhesed.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abidinginhesed.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abidinginhesed.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}