{"id":5153,"date":"2018-06-20T16:19:36","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T15:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/?p=5153"},"modified":"2018-06-20T16:19:36","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T15:19:36","slug":"today-we-celebrate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/2018\/06\/20\/today-we-celebrate\/","title":{"rendered":"Today we celebrate!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WOW!\u00a0 When Roy and his little crew came to Lynn&#8217;s house this morning right after devotions, with big grins on their faces, we were overjoyed to hear their news!\u00a0 Zweli, Loisa, and Sbabalo all prayed to accept the Lord Jesus into their lives.\u00a0 Zweli has been translating from English to Xhosa for the other two, and is much more familiar with the bible and church. 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