{"id":3993,"date":"2015-05-22T19:00:06","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T23:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/?p=3993"},"modified":"2015-05-22T19:00:06","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T23:00:06","slug":"welcome-colin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/?p=3993","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Colin!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/05\/DSC_2052.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3994\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/05\/DSC_2052.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_2052\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/05\/DSC_2052.jpg 700w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/05\/DSC_2052-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/05\/DSC_2054.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3995\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/05\/DSC_2054.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_2054\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/05\/DSC_2054.jpg 700w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/05\/DSC_2054-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a>We recently welcomed Colin McLaughlin to Quito to work with us and IPEE over the summer months. \u00a0Colin is a pre-med student at Wheaton College and a member of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thornapple.org\/\">Thornapple Covenant Church<\/a> in Grand Rapids, Michigan. \u00a0He wanted to volunteer as a missionary over these summer months and wanted to work in the area of medicine if at all possible, so we are glad and happy to have him wih us over the next few months. \u00a0In addition to helping at the clinic in Cayambe, he will also be helping in various ministries of IPEE while he is here. \u00a0Welcome to Quito Colin!!!<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=3993&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recently welcomed Colin McLaughlin to Quito to work with us and IPEE over the summer months. \u00a0Colin is a pre-med student at Wheaton College and a member of Thornapple Covenant Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan. \u00a0He wanted to volunteer as a missionary over these summer months and wanted to work in the area of &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/?p=3993\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4090,18823,124,171,72],"tags":[24664,73,24670,154,115,24649,24651],"class_list":["post-3993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cayambe","category-clinic","category-ecuador","category-evangelical-covenant-church","category-updates","tag-cayambe","tag-churches","tag-clinic","tag-friends","tag-ipee","tag-ministry","tag-updates"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Welcome Colin! 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