{"id":232,"date":"2021-02-28T15:38:19","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T15:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wendycarter.website\/?p=232"},"modified":"2021-02-28T15:38:19","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T15:38:19","slug":"a-giant-in-our-backyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wendycarter.info\/?p=232","title":{"rendered":"A Giant in our Backyard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>A new visitor surprised us in our backyard recently.\u00a0 She was hanging upside down and pecking away at the suet feeder attached to one of our tree branches.\u00a0 At first Gary and I thought it was a black squirrel that likes to do that too, but this winged creature was sporting a red crest or hoodie \u2013 so not a squirrel.\u00a0 We were gob-smacked to realize it was a giant woodpecker that we had never seen before.\u00a0 She looked so unreal.\u00a0 We mostly see downy woodpeckers that are about 7 inches long with the male wearing a red cap on the back of his head. \u00a0Apparently, this large bird is a pileated woodpecker (meaning capped) that can grow up to 19 inches long, similar to the size of a crow. I later learned that it was a female as a male has a red moustache along the top part of both sides of his beak. We never really know about all the birds God has hidden in the surrounding trees that are watching us.\u00a0 When one suddenly appears, we are delighted.\u00a0 Super Cat from my previous story had his eye on this big bird too because he is always in for a challenge. They are about the same size. When he stalked closer, she quickly flew away.\u00a0 Too bad Super Cat!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Gary and I have learned a fair bit about the country of Myanmar over the last couple of decades, particularly when Gary and his friend, Steve travelled there in 2010 for a visit.\u00a0 Our charity, Kainos International Ministries, has supported three families with their various ministries and orphanage work.\u00a0 It is sad to watch what is happening on the news with the recent military coupe. We are definitely not learning the whole story.\u00a0 These poor people have had a taste of a more democratic, freer society for quite a while.\u00a0 They don\u2019t want to go back.\u00a0 Please pray for safety and good health for Richard, William, Thomas and their families along with all the many Christians in this suffering country.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>As to our Hillside Church news, we can return to having Sunday services in our Milton restaurant March 7.\u00a0 It will be good to reconnect with the staff who have become our friends.\u00a0 We have also reapplied to the Canada Summer Jobs program.\u00a0 Please pray for approval this spring and recruitment of students to work for our outreach ministry. It would be great if any of them could move to Milton. \u00a0I will send along more details next month if approved.\u00a0 Let us know if you know of a student who is looking for summer work ($15\/hour).\u00a0 We will train them as our missionaries.\u00a0 And the week before Easter we will be delivering 100 full Bibles to the contacts made last year.\u00a0 Maybe we will get to do an official launch this fall.\u00a0 There is so much to do in starting a new church!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>No matter our age, isn\u2019t it fun to learn something new?\u00a0 It helps me understand how small and insignificant I am compared to the great God who has created all things.\u00a0 Scientists over the past year have had to learn much about vaccines.\u00a0 Thankfully, it looks like we will be receiving our shots in April or even sooner.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hey, why not challenge ourselves to learn something new each week? I already learned something about a familiar animal just a couple of days ago.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Blessings!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Wendy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Wendy.carter@kainos.org<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new visitor surprised us in our backyard recently.\u00a0 She was hanging upside down and pecking away at the suet feeder attached to one of our tree branches.\u00a0 At first Gary and I thought it was a black squirrel that likes to do that too, but this winged creature was sporting a red crest or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wendycarter.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wendycarter.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wendycarter.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendycarter.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendycarter.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wendycarter.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233,"href":"https:\/\/wendycarter.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wendycarter.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendycarter.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendycarter.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}