{"id":1660,"date":"2018-03-08T22:10:51","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T14:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nemmadventist.org\/?p=1660"},"modified":"2018-03-08T22:11:40","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T14:11:40","slug":"shepherdess-international-continuing-education-program-level-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nemmadventist.org\/?p=1660","title":{"rendered":"Shepherdess International: Continuing Education Program Level 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cIt is hard to be a pastor\u2019s wife when everyone in the church expects you to know everything,\u201d says Linda (not her real name).\u00a0 The wife of a pastor plays a very important role in the church and in the district.\u00a0 She is considered a full time mother, expected to raise perfect kids, adviser to women and family departments, expert in telling stories, good cook, pianist, choir director and many others.\u00a0 These are a few of the many expectations that can often lead to physical and emotional stress.<\/p>\n

The Adventist organization provided a place for these ministers\u2019 spouses and it is called Shepherdess International<\/em>.\u00a0 It is the objective of the organization to help deal with these situations.\u00a0 That is why, Mrs. Marivic Saramosing – the Shepherdess International<\/em> Coordinator for Caraga Region, together with Mrs. Pinky Gulfan \u2013 the Shepherdess International<\/em> Coordinator for Mindanao, conducted the first \u201cContinuing Education Program Level 1 for Shepherdess International of Northeastern Mindanao Mission with the theme \u201cGrowing with Jesus.\u201d\u00a0 The guest speakers are Mrs. Pinky Gulfan, along with her husband Pr. Edwin Gulfan \u2013 the new SSD Evangelist.\u00a0 Their combine experiences in the field for more than forty years as ministers, they shared their knowledge on understanding the life, challenges and role of the wife of the pastor and how to deal with it physically, emotionally and spiritually.<\/p>\n

Mrs. Jeiel Jagmoc one of the forty seminarians says that \u201cthe lectures were timely and inspiring.\u00a0 We were able to share our experiences, opinions and expertise on the topics during the workshop which is a good thing because it is a way of learning together.\u00a0 Pastor Edwin and Ma\u2019am Pinky Gulfan brought out the best we can be as Minister\u2019s Wife and Shepherdess.\u201d\u00a0 Mrs. Marivic Saramosing is planning to have a Continuing Education Program Level 2 for Shepherdess International in the future.\u00a0 It is her hope that every wife of the Adventist pastors in Caraga region would \u201cgrow into a spiritually mature clergy spouse,\u201d she added. (Meljoie Pepito \u2013 Ampayon Padiay District Leader)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cIt is hard to be a pastor\u2019s wife when everyone in the church expects you to know everything,\u201d says Linda (not her real name).\u00a0 The wife of a pastor plays a very important role in the church and in the district.\u00a0 She is considered a full time mother, expected to raise perfect kids, adviser to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_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":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[23,84],"class_list":{"0":"post-1660","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-shepherdess-international","10":"entry"},"featured_image_src":"http:\/\/www.nemmadventist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/si-certification.png","featured_image_src_square":"http:\/\/www.nemmadventist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/si-certification.png","author_info":{"display_name":"WebAdmin","author_link":"http:\/\/www.nemmadventist.org\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nemmadventist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nemmadventist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nemmadventist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nemmadventist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nemmadventist.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1660"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.nemmadventist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1664,"href":"http:\/\/www.nemmadventist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions\/1664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nemmadventist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nemmadventist.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nemmadventist.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nemmadventist.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}