{"id":300,"date":"2009-09-23T22:11:19","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T03:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/?p=300"},"modified":"2009-09-23T22:11:19","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T03:11:19","slug":"africa-trip-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/2009\/09\/africa-trip-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa trip schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">Sept 20\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 arrive Nairobi<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">Sept 21\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 visit Rift Valley Academy and the CURE  Kijabe orthopedic pediatric hospital<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">Sept 22\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 visit the poultry project at the  Kitengela Covenant Church just outside Nairobi.\u00a0 Meetings with the Evangelical  Covenant C<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">hurch of Kenya<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">Sept 23\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 fly from Nairobi to Juba, Sudan.\u00a0 Juba  is the capital of southern Sudan.\u00a0 Visit with World Relief International program  directors<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">Sept 24\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 fly from Juba to Malakal. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">Sept 25-26\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 visit Evangelical Covenant Church of  Sudan (ECCS) projects, begin meetings with the ECCS leadership.\u00a0 Topics <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">will include the relationship between the ECC and  the ECCS, relief and development, projects: proposal, management, reporting and  accountability, the role of women and women ministries\u00a0(by Cindy), and  more<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">Sept 27\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 worship<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">Sept 28-29\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 travell by boat from Malakal up the  White Nile and tributary to Bentiu with an overnight stop in Fangok<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial; 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