{"id":1507,"date":"2011-11-10T08:39:24","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T13:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/?p=1507"},"modified":"2011-11-15T10:30:23","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T15:30:23","slug":"congo-team-back-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/2011\/11\/congo-team-back-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Congo team back together"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1509\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/11\/Congo-team2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1509\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1509 \" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/11\/Congo-team2-300x246.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/11\/Congo-team2-300x246.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/11\/Congo-team2.jpg 730w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1509\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Congo resident missionary team<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Our entire resident Congo missionary team was together again last weekend for the first time in about 20 months. \u00a0Yes, the last time this group was together was in Chicago in late February 2010. \u00a0The one member not present was Keith Gustafson. \u00a0Keith lives in the US and comes to visit us 4 times a year.<\/p>\n<p>Sitting in the picture are Cindy Ekstrand, Helen Smith, Marta Klein, and Sheryl Noren. \u00a0Standing are Pete Ekstrand, Tim Smith and Paul Noren.<\/p>\n<p>The Smiths and Pete had just arrived back in Congo earlier in the week; the Smiths after being gone for 10 months for medical leave and Pete after a trip to the US.<\/p>\n<p>Our time together was spent with a lot of catching up on our lives and ministry, praying and worshiping, some needed mission business, eating and games. \u00a0We played Chicken Foot dominoes, Ticket to Ride and Phase 10.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately this group won&#8217;t be together again for another 6 months. \u00a0The Norens leave next week for 6 months of ministry with the Fulani in CAR and Cameroon. \u00a0They don&#8217;t return until the end of April 2012. \u00a0Marta is going with them for 2 months to see the Fulani ministry, spend some time with Dr. Tim Wester at the Gamboula, CAR hospital and then take vacation with missionary friends in Cameroon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=1507&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our entire resident Congo missionary team was together again last weekend for the first time in about 20 months. \u00a0Yes, the last time this group was together was in Chicago in late February 2010. \u00a0The one member not present was Keith Gustafson. \u00a0Keith lives in the US and comes to visit us 4 times a [&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-1507","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>Congo team back together - 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\/11\/congo-team-back-together\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Congo team back together - Ekstrands in Congo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Our entire resident Congo missionary team was together again last weekend for the first time in about 20 months. \u00a0Yes, the last time this group was together was in Chicago in late February 2010. \u00a0The one member not present was Keith Gustafson. \u00a0Keith lives in the US and comes to visit us 4 times a [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/2011\/11\/congo-team-back-together\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ekstrands in Congo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-11-10T13:39:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2011-11-15T15:30:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/11\/Congo-team2-300x246.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Pete &amp; 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