{"id":65,"date":"2009-07-03T18:50:17","date_gmt":"2009-07-04T01:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonandlayne.com\/?p=65"},"modified":"2009-07-03T19:24:55","modified_gmt":"2009-07-04T02:24:55","slug":"as-we-go-on-to-portugal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonandlayne.com\/as-we-go-on-to-portugal\/","title":{"rendered":"As we go… On to Portugal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Layne and I are stepping into the next portion of our lives. We are moving to Porto, Portugal tomorrow to study Portuguese for three months. We will have a private tutor for a few hours a day, homework and practice, practice, practice, all in the hopes that we will be close to fluent in Portuguese by the time October comes around.<\/p>\n
Please pray dear friends and family\u2026 please pray.<\/p>\n
We will be trying to find a church and ministry soon after we get there to be involved with while we are in Portugal. There are two purposes in looking for a ministry. The first is simply to be involved in actively serving the Lord while we are there, and the second is to make sure we learn Biblical terms and Christian words that we may otherwise not learn from a private secular tutor.<\/p>\n
All of this is in preparation for our goal of moving to Namibe, Angola by the end of this year. We are excited to speak to Angolans in their first language and minister to them without the common misunderstandings that come with speaking in a non-native tongue.<\/p>\n
We will be keeping our personal blog updated as often as possible while we are there.\u00a0 You can even enter your email address in the \u201cSubscribe\u201d box on the right side to receive email updates whenever we post something to our blog.<\/p>\n
We are going under a brand new non-profit that my father started. It is called \u201cVoices of the World Missions\u201d and you can visit www.votwmissions.com<\/a> to learn more about it. Right now the focus is on Layne and I in Angola and our pursuit of ministry there.<\/p>\n