{"id":1620,"date":"2012-02-07T19:16:47","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T00:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/?p=1620"},"modified":"2012-04-18T15:56:20","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T20:56:20","slug":"world-vision-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/2012\/02\/world-vision-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"World Vision Partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exciting changes ahead:<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2012\/02\/ckc-logo.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1621\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2012\/02\/ckc-logo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2012\/02\/ckc-logo.gif 300w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2012\/02\/ckc-logo-150x150.gif 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>A major partnership with World Vision that promises to dramatically impact the lives of people suffering the ravages of poverty in the Democratic Republic of Congo was unveiled this morning during the closing session of the Midwinter Conference of the Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC). \u00a0The new initiative \u2013 Covenant Kids Congo powered by World Vision \u2013 is built on World Vision\u2019s established model of child sponsorship that raises funds in support of development work in critical areas of need.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.covchurch.org\/news\/2012\/02\/03\/world-vision-covenant-launch-historic-partnership\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ECC-CovNewswire+%28%28ECC%29+%7C+Covenant+Newswire%29\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Read more&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=1620&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exciting changes ahead: A major partnership with World Vision that promises to dramatically impact the lives of people suffering the ravages of poverty in the Democratic Republic of Congo was unveiled this morning during the closing session of the Midwinter Conference of the Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC). \u00a0The new initiative \u2013 Covenant Kids Congo powered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-world-mission-events-trips"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>World Vision Partnership - 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\/2012\/02\/world-vision-partnership\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"World Vision Partnership - Ekstrands in Congo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Exciting changes ahead: A major partnership with World Vision that promises to dramatically impact the lives of people suffering the ravages of poverty in the Democratic Republic of Congo was unveiled this morning during the closing session of the Midwinter Conference of the Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC). \u00a0The new initiative \u2013 Covenant Kids Congo powered [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/2012\/02\/world-vision-partnership\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ekstrands in Congo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-02-08T00:16:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2012-04-18T20:56:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2012\/02\/ckc-logo.gif\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Pete &amp; 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