{"id":4684,"date":"2017-08-30T18:43:13","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T17:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/?p=4684"},"modified":"2017-08-30T18:43:13","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T17:43:13","slug":"goodbye-jean-claude-will-missed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/2017\/08\/30\/goodbye-jean-claude-will-missed\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye, Jean Claude!\u00a0You will be missed!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4652\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/08\/blog-Jean-Claude-goodbye-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4652\" class=\"wp-image-4652 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/08\/blog-Jean-Claude-goodbye-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/08\/blog-Jean-Claude-goodbye-2.jpg 450w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/08\/blog-Jean-Claude-goodbye-2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4652\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jean Claude is to Roy&#8217;s left<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Oh, Roy\u2019s best sports buddy has just moved back to Bangui, after about 15 years of work at the mission hospital\u2019s garage and print shop.\u00a0 He has always been ready to play basketball or volleyball when Roy shows up at about 5pm after a long day\u2019s work.\u00a0 They have been known to play just one on one, as well as welcome all ages and strengths into the games.\u00a0 We will miss Jean Claude\u2019s out of the box thinking, his energizing accordion playing at church, and mainly just his warm friendship. \u00a0He will be missed. \u00a0Please pray for him and his family, especially for his young adult son who is currently in and out of the hospital with brittle diabetes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=4684&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, Roy\u2019s best sports buddy has just moved back to Bangui, after about 15 years of work at the mission hospital\u2019s garage and print shop.\u00a0 He has always been ready to play basketball or volleyball when Roy shows up at &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/2017\/08\/30\/goodbye-jean-claude-will-missed\/\">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-4684","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>Goodbye, Jean Claude!\u00a0You will be missed! 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