{"id":337,"date":"2009-10-15T08:07:28","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T13:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/?p=337"},"modified":"2009-10-15T08:08:22","modified_gmt":"2009-10-15T13:08:22","slug":"visits-and-meeting-in-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/2009\/10\/visits-and-meeting-in-sudan\/","title":{"rendered":"Visits and meetings in Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday and Saturday were filled with visits and <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-346\" title=\"malakal-new-church-plant2\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2009\/10\/malakal-new-church-plant2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"malakal-new-church-plant2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>meetings.\u00a0 We visited the new houses being constructed for the church leaders.\u00a0 It was encouraging to see them almost completed.\u00a0 We also drove out to the outskirts of town to see where the main market will move later year.\u00a0 The church has built 2 shops there and the women have built a building for a restaurant.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There is a newly <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-347\" title=\"shops-at-new-market\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2009\/10\/shops-at-new-market-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"shops-at-new-market\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>planted Covenant church in this area that warmly welcomed us and washed our feet as is the custom.<\/p>\n<p>We Praise the Lord for excellent interaction with the ECCS.\u00a0 We shared the Word throughout our meetings which included discussions about the ongoing relationship between both Covenant World Mission and Covenant World Relief and the ECCS.\u00a0 We clarified subjects that were unclear.\u00a0 We also answered many questions.\u00a0 Our sense is that through this we came to a much better understanding of each other.\u00a0 Thank you Lord!<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=337&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday and Saturday were filled with visits and meetings.\u00a0 We visited the new houses being constructed for the church leaders.\u00a0 It was encouraging to see them almost completed.\u00a0 We also drove out to the outskirts of town to see where the main market will move later year.\u00a0 The church has built 2 shops there and [&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-337","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>Visits and meetings in Sudan - 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\/2009\/10\/visits-and-meeting-in-sudan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Visits and meetings in Sudan - Ekstrands in Congo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Friday and Saturday were filled with visits and meetings.\u00a0 We visited the new houses being constructed for the church leaders.\u00a0 It was encouraging to see them almost completed.\u00a0 We also drove out to the outskirts of town to see where the main market will move later year.\u00a0 The church has built 2 shops there and [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/2009\/10\/visits-and-meeting-in-sudan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ekstrands in Congo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-10-15T13:07:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2009-10-15T13:08:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2009\/10\/malakal-new-church-plant2-150x150.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Pete &amp; 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