{"id":20,"date":"2008-08-12T22:50:53","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T03:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/?p=20"},"modified":"2008-08-12T22:50:53","modified_gmt":"2008-08-13T03:50:53","slug":"reflections-on-mission-connection-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/2008\/08\/reflections-on-mission-connection-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on Mission Connection Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our time in Chicago for the Mission Connection Week was excellent.\u00a0 We really appreciated the opportunities to get to know many of our other Covenant missionaries, some of whom we had met only briefly.\u00a0 Through personal sharing and sharing of our ministries we felt bonded to them as we completed our time together.\u00a0 The times of prayer for each couple were very special.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_21\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2008\/08\/praying-for-smiths.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21\" title=\"praying-for-smiths\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2008\/08\/praying-for-smiths-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Praying for Tim and Helen Smith\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-21\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Praying for Tim and Helen Smith<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The devotional times with their focus on some time of worship through singing and the Word followed by 30 minutes of solitude meditations were much appreciated.\u00a0 We both felt drawn closer to God through these times.<\/p>\n<p>Some other highlights:\u00a0 having incoming President Gary Walter share the Word, his testimony, visions for the Covenant and respond to questions; blogging lessons at the North Park library with this as the result; the hors-d&#8217;oeuvres with many Covenant administrators; the Gipsy Kings concert at Ravinia park Saturday evening; ice cream sundaes with retired missionaries at Northbook Retirement Center and the barbecue followed by communion at Curt &amp; Martie\u00a0 Peterson&#8217;s,<\/p>\n<p>Sunday morning we were asked to speak at Sojourner Covenant in Evanston.\u00a0 It was good to share some stories of our ministry with these people.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_22\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2008\/08\/nancys-feet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22\" title=\"nancys-feet\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2008\/08\/nancys-feet-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"How blessed are the feet of those who preach Good news\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">How blessed are the feet of those who preach Good news<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One our icebreaker activities the first night was decorating 3 volunteers feet.\u00a0 Fun.\u00a0 Here are Nancy Reed&#8217;s feet.<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead we will seek to post regularly to this blog, particularly following trips or significant events.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=20&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our time in Chicago for the Mission Connection Week was excellent.\u00a0 We really appreciated the opportunities to get to know many of our other Covenant missionaries, some of whom we had met only briefly.\u00a0 Through personal sharing and sharing of our ministries we felt bonded to them as we completed our time together.\u00a0 The times [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Reflections on Mission Connection Week - 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=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/2008\/08\/reflections-on-mission-connection-week\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Reflections on Mission Connection Week - Ekstrands in Congo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Our time in Chicago for the Mission Connection Week was excellent.\u00a0 We really appreciated the opportunities to get to know many of our other Covenant missionaries, some of whom we had met only briefly.\u00a0 Through personal sharing and sharing of our ministries we felt bonded to them as we completed our time together.\u00a0 The times [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/2008\/08\/reflections-on-mission-connection-week\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ekstrands in Congo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2008-08-13T03:50:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2008\/08\/praying-for-smiths-300x224.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Pete &amp; 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