{"id":134,"date":"2010-01-28T05:27:20","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T09:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/?p=134"},"modified":"2011-10-01T05:04:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-01T04:04:00","slug":"monday-across-the-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/2010\/01\/28\/monday-across-the-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday across the border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a good trip on Monday to visit with our Fulani friends across the border.  Here&#8217;s a photo of one of the veggie gardens that we are helping these former non-farming people to start.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-132\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2010\/01\/kentzou-veggies.jpg\" alt=\"kentzou-veggies\" width=\"282\" height=\"212\" \/><br \/>\nAs we drove on the road up to the meeting place, we saw a big corn harvest going on.  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