{"id":1200,"date":"2011-04-05T15:10:29","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T20:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/?p=1200"},"modified":"2011-04-05T15:10:29","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T20:10:29","slug":"new-colleague-joins-us-in-congo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/2011\/04\/new-colleague-joins-us-in-congo\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW COLLEAGUE JOINS US IN CONGO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What a joy it is to have Marta Klein join us in Congo.  Marta, a physician&#8217;s assistant from Salina, KS, will serve in Karawa after she completes ~7 weeks of Lingala study.  She just arrived from France where she studied French for 4-1\/2 months.  She joined us in Cameroon for the spiritual retreat March 21-25 and then traveled to Congo with us last week.  Marta commented during the retreat that the last year has been one full of training for service here.  Following Covenant World Mission training and equipping for service, she studied tropical medicine in West Virginia for 2 months, had a week of CHE training and then French studies.  She started Lingala study her second day here and used it during her greeting in church today.  She is pictured with former president Duale who prayed for her during the introduction today.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1201\" style=\"width: 442px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/04\/2011-04-03-Marta-Duale-Cindy-Keith.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1201\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1201\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/04\/2011-04-03-Marta-Duale-Cindy-Keith.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"322\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1201\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cindy, Papa Duale, Marta, &amp; Keith<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<div id=\"attachment_1202\" style=\"width: 442px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/04\/2011-04-03-Marta-Papa-Duale.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1202\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1202  \" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/04\/2011-04-03-Marta-Papa-Duale.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"322\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1202\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marta &amp; Papa Duale<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=1200&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a joy it is to have Marta Klein join us in Congo. Marta, a physician&#8217;s assistant from Salina, KS, will serve in Karawa after she completes ~7 weeks of Lingala study. She just arrived from France where she studied French for 4-1\/2 months. She joined us in Cameroon for the spiritual retreat March 21-25 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NEW COLLEAGUE JOINS US IN CONGO - Ekstrands in Congo<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/2011\/04\/new-colleague-joins-us-in-congo\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NEW COLLEAGUE JOINS US IN CONGO - Ekstrands in Congo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"What a joy it is to have Marta Klein join us in Congo. 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