{"id":18499,"date":"2018-11-30T00:27:45","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T06:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=18499"},"modified":"2018-11-30T09:04:16","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T15:04:16","slug":"word-of-the-day-432","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/11\/30\/word-of-the-day-432\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Missiologist<\/em>:<\/p>\n

[Concerning John Chau<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Obviously, the long-term strategy did not work, and Chau will become not only a topic of debate but of study for missiologists, people who train missionaries. That\u2019s my field. I have a PhD in the subject and have trained missionaries to go to many places, including India. I am also the dean of the mission school at Wheaton College, where we unapologetically and enthusiastically train missionaries to engage their own cultures, as well as cross-culturally, from their culture to another. [“Slain missionary John Chau prepared much more than we thought, but are missionaries still fools?<\/a>“, Ed Stetzer,\u00a0Dean of the School of Mission, Ministry and Leadership at Wheaton College, WaPo<\/strong>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For those readers following the story<\/a> of the late missionary John Chau and his attempt to bring Christianity to the isolated Andaman Islanders, this claim may also be of interest:<\/p>\n

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But new information released Wednesday paints a more complicated picture of Chau, including an\u00a0interview with Christianity Today<\/a>. In the interview, Mary Ho, who leads All Nations (the agency that sent Chau on missions), indicated that he was heavily vaccinated and even quarantined before going on the mission.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It sounds good, but I’d rather here<\/del> hear from an infectious diseases doc and researcher who also knew which vaccinations were employed. I remain worried this was the work of amateurs who only think they know what they’re doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Missiologist: [Concerning John Chau] Obviously, the long-term strategy did not work, and Chau will become not only a topic of debate but of study for missiologists, people who train missionaries. That\u2019s my field. I have a PhD in the subject and have trained missionaries to go to many places, including \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18499"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18502,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18499\/revisions\/18502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}