{"id":2698,"date":"2014-07-23T10:32:51","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T09:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/?p=2698"},"modified":"2014-07-23T10:32:51","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T09:32:51","slug":"so-long-to-our-buddies-the-turks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/2014\/07\/23\/so-long-to-our-buddies-the-turks\/","title":{"rendered":"So long to our buddies, the Turks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2685\" style=\"width: 458px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/07\/blog-turks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2685\" class=\" wp-image-2685\" alt=\"blog turks\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/07\/blog-turks.jpg\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/07\/blog-turks.jpg 448w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/07\/blog-turks-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2685\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luke, Timothe, Benny, Leanne, Bobby<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Our good friends, the Turks, are now officially moved back to Yaounde for this next year. \u00a0It ended up that they were needed to fill the position of dorm parents for the school year 2014-2015. \u00a0We will sorely miss them here at Gamboula. \u00a0We&#8217;ll miss their smiles and their presence over the coming months. \u00a0We will carry them around in our hearts, and most likely will be on the phone and on email with them, for advice and prayer and hopefully a laugh or two! Benny will be heading off to college in August. \u00a0Please pray for him as he enters into the new world of being on his own in the U.S. \u00a0Please pray for Luke &amp; Leanne as they take care of the high school-aged children while they attend high school, enabling their missionary parents to carry on with sharing the love of the Messiah in their various ministries.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=2698&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our good friends, the Turks, are now officially moved back to Yaounde for this next year. \u00a0It ended up that they were needed to fill the position of dorm parents for the school year 2014-2015. \u00a0We will sorely miss them &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/2014\/07\/23\/so-long-to-our-buddies-the-turks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,2724],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-monthly-prayer-requests"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>So long to our buddies, the Turks - Danforths&#039; 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