by Ben & Marianne Janssen<\/p>\n
Still Time<\/strong><\/p>\n Although we are living right now in a world of rapid change and in a world of people running to and fro, there is still time to present Christ to the last people groups that have never heard of Him. In the time of the Roman Empire, when the Gospel was fervently preached all over the then known world, our God in His sovereign grace had orchestrated the construction of the Roman road network of perfectly laid cobblestone roads all over the empire. This was never seen before, but it came exactly at the time when the Good News had to be spread by the apostles and their disciples throughout Asia and Europe.<\/p>\n Now we enter a crucial time in the Kingdom of our Lord where the last push is directed toward the hard to reach ethnic groups in dangerous places. Again, in His sovereign grace, God has opened up for us the avenue of reaching them. Now the barriers of distance are gone. Modern technology has made it possible to reach the ends of the earth in a day. What is there to stop us from following Him?<\/p>\n It is now almost twenty years ago that we jumped headlong into missions. I can remember the first night on the mission field when we left Vienna together with our youngest daughter, who was thirteen at the time. We boarded the train to the Ukraine at midnight and I knew right away that it would be a difficult night. First of all, the rail officials split our family in two, and I ended up with Joanna in a compartment full of South American tourists. They were a mixed company, which made me afraid for the well-being of our daughter. They were loud and boisterous all night, not willing to open one little window in the stuffy compartment all the while eating spicy chips. I honestly tried to love them, but it was extremely hard! I lay down on the narrow cot, but stayed awake all that long night and kept my eyes open to watch Joanna. I was nearly in tears when the daylight broke and I asked God, “Is this what I have to endure all the time as a missionary?” I am happy to say it was not like that all the time, but there were many days that I had to pray fervently to keep ourselves focused on the work at hand.<\/p>\n After twenty years following our Lord in the mission work, now on three continents, I can testify that He has never left us or forsaken us. He has always directed and guided us. He will give us the courage and faith to continue till He comes! Will there be another twenty years to follow Him to the ends of the earth? I do not think so…. “From the fig tree learn its lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts out its leaves, you know that summer is near. So also, when you see all these things, you know that He is near, at the very gates.” (Matthew 24:32-33) by Ben & Marianne Janssen Support their ministry here! Still Time Although we are living right now in a world of rapid change and in a world of people running…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":1428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,4],"tags":[205,169,65,31],"class_list":{"0":"post-1427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-missionary-newsletters","8":"category-world-missions","9":"tag-205","10":"tag-ben-marianne-janssen","11":"tag-janssen","12":"tag-missionary-newsletter","13":"entry"},"title_es":"Janssen Newsletter: February 2017","content_es":"por Ben & Marianne Janssen
\nIn His service,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Apoyar su ministerio aqu\u00ed!<\/span><\/a> <\/h3> A\u00fan est\u00e1 a tiempo<\/strong> Aunque estamos viviendo en este momento en un mundo de cambios r\u00e1pidos y en un mundo de gente corriendo de aqu\u00ed para all\u00e1, todav\u00eda hay tiempo para presentar a Cristo a los \u00faltimos grupos de personas que nunca han o\u00eddo hablar de \u00e9l. En la \u00e9poca del Imperio Romano, cuando el Evangelio fue predicado fervientemente en todo el mundo entonces conocido, nuestro Dios en su gracia soberana hab\u00eda orquestado la construcci\u00f3n de la red viaria romana de carreteras adoquinadas perfectamente establecidas en todo el imperio. Esto nunca se ha visto antes, pero lleg\u00f3 justo en el momento en que la buena nueva ten\u00eda que ser transmitida por los ap\u00f3stoles y sus disc\u00edpulos a trav\u00e9s de Asia y Europa. Ahora entramos en un momento crucial en el Reino de nuestro Se\u00f1or en el que el \u00faltimo impulso se dirige hacia la dif\u00edcil llegar a los grupos \u00e9tnicos en lugares peligrosos. Una vez m\u00e1s, en su gracia soberana, Dios ha abierto para nosotros la avenida de llegar a ellos. Ahora se han ido las barreras de la distancia. La tecnolog\u00eda moderna ha hecho posible llegar a los confines de la tierra en un d\u00eda. \u00bfQu\u00e9 hay que pararnos de lo siguiente? Ya han pasado casi veinte a\u00f1os que nos meti\u00f3 de cabeza en las misiones. Puedo recordar la primera noche en el campo de la misi\u00f3n cuando dejamos de Viena, junto con nuestra hija menor, que ten\u00eda trece a\u00f1os en el momento. Abordamos el tren a Ucrania a la medianoche y supe de inmediato que ser\u00eda una noche dif\u00edcil. En primer lugar, los funcionarios de riel dividido nuestra familia en dos, y yo terminamos con Joanna en un compartimento lleno de turistas de Am\u00e9rica del Sur. Eran una empresa mixta, que me hizo temer por el bienestar de nuestra hija. Eran fuertes y bulliciosos toda la noche, no est\u00e1 dispuesto a abrir una peque\u00f1a ventana en el compartimiento tapada todo el tiempo comiendo patatas picantes. Sinceramente, trat\u00e9 de amarlos, pero era muy dif\u00edcil! Me tumb\u00e9 en la cama estrecha, pero me qued\u00e9 despierto toda la larga noche y mantuvo los ojos abiertos para ver Joanna. Yo estaba a punto de llorar cuando la luz del d\u00eda se rompi\u00f3 y me pregunt\u00f3 a Dios: "\u00bfEs esto lo que tengo que soportar todo el tiempo como misionero?" Estoy feliz de decir que no era como que todo el tiempo, pero hab\u00eda muchos d\u00edas que ten\u00eda que orar fervientemente para mantenernos enfocados en el trabajo a mano. Despu\u00e9s de veinte a\u00f1os que siguieron a nuestro Se\u00f1or en el trabajo de la misi\u00f3n, ahora en tres continentes, puedo dar fe de que \u00c9l nunca nos ha dejado o abandonado nosotros. Siempre ha dirigido y guiado. \u00c9l nos dar\u00e1 el valor y la fe para continuar hasta que \u00e9l venga! \u00bfHabr\u00e1 otros veinte a\u00f1os para seguirlo hasta los confines de la tierra? Yo no lo creo .... "De la higuera aprended la par\u00e1bola: cuando ya sus ramas est\u00e1n tiernas y brotan las hojas, sab\u00e9is que el verano est\u00e1 cerca As\u00ed tambi\u00e9n, cuando vean todas estas cosas, ya sabes. que est\u00e1 cerca, a las puertas ". (Mateo 24: 32-33) en su servicio,","author_name":"","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/02\/Janssen-Featured.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb62Ar-n1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}