{"id":2946,"date":"2015-05-04T09:47:11","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T14:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/?p=2946"},"modified":"2015-05-04T09:47:11","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T14:47:11","slug":"the-sweeper-life-in-congo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/2015\/05\/the-sweeper-life-in-congo\/","title":{"rendered":"The sweeper – Life in Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We visited the Songbolo Bible Institute two weeks ago and yes indeed, the sweeping started at 3 AM. \u00a0I’ve heard them before in the village, but never that early. \u00a0Thankfully it was early enough that I could still go back to sleep once he moved a bit further from the house we were in. \u00a0Now of course, if like most other people in the village we had closed our windows we wouldn’t have heard him so well, but we want whatever air movement we can get so with that comes “duh-whoosh,\u00a0duh-whoosh,\u00a0duh-whoosh” in an even rhythm as moves across the yard and away down the road.<\/p>\n