{"id":366,"date":"2010-08-22T08:26:18","date_gmt":"2010-08-22T07:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/?p=366"},"modified":"2011-10-01T04:41:27","modified_gmt":"2011-10-01T03:41:27","slug":"the-bjorklunds-are-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/2010\/08\/22\/the-bjorklunds-are-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bj\u00f6rklunds are gone!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our Swedish missionary buddies, Dr. Isac &amp; Karin, Hanna &amp; Signe, left Gamboula for home last month.  They are looking at probably 3 years of specialty training for Isac, and then they will be thinking about maybe coming back to Africa.  We sure miss them and especially those wonderful little girls!  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