{"id":806,"date":"2018-01-23T17:37:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T17:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cjhoskins\/?p=806"},"modified":"2018-01-23T17:37:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T17:37:29","slug":"reconnections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cjhoskins\/2018\/01\/23\/reconnections\/","title":{"rendered":"reconnections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cjhoskins\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/124\/2018\/01\/IMG_6708-e1516728787654.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-807\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cjhoskins\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/124\/2018\/01\/IMG_6708-e1516728787654-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"901\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cjhoskins\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/124\/2018\/01\/IMG_6708-e1516728787654-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cjhoskins\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/124\/2018\/01\/IMG_6708-e1516728787654-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cjhoskins\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/124\/2018\/01\/IMG_6708-e1516728787654-676x901.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>14 (!) years ago,\u00a0<a class=\"profileLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/chris.hoskins.940?fref=mentions\">Chris<\/a>\u00a0and I started dating while studying abroad in Mexico. We travelled the country and ate wonderful food and took in Mexican history and culture and made amazing friends and managed to learn a bit of Spanish. We also visited Covenant missionaries, Tom and Janice Kelly, in Mexico City. Everything felt like it came full circle last week when we met with the current NPU study abroad students and were able to reconnect with our beloved professor, Linda Craft.\u00a0 Great evening of catching up, reliving old memories and remembering all our friends from that semester who made it one of the best!<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cjhoskins?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=806&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>14 (!) years ago,\u00a0Chris\u00a0and I started dating while studying abroad in Mexico. 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Everything felt like it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>reconnections - Hoskins Family in Ecuador<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cjhoskins\/2018\/01\/23\/reconnections\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"reconnections - Hoskins Family in Ecuador\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"14 (!) years ago,\u00a0Chris\u00a0and I started dating while studying abroad in Mexico. 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