{"id":3121,"date":"2007-03-25T21:07:29","date_gmt":"2007-03-25T21:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire\/?p=3121"},"modified":"2010-12-09T16:08:16","modified_gmt":"2010-12-09T16:08:16","slug":"5485","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire\/2007\/03\/25\/5485\/","title":{"rendered":"Peterson, Thorpe Return Home Safely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO, IL (March 25, 2007) \u2013 Covenanters Dr. Roger Thorpe and Curt Peterson arrived in Chicago this afternoon following several harrowing days in the midst of military conflict in the capital city of Kinshasa.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.covchurch.org\/uploads\/9j\/V9\/9jV9UceL5RyvEaycRrt3Lw\/WM.jpg\" alt=\"Welcome at O'Hare International\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" align=\"right\" \/>Their flight touched down at O\u2019Hare International Airport around 2:05 p.m., a Covenant World Mission staff member advises.<\/p>\n<p>Thorpe, a retired Evangelical Covenant Church medical missionary who served in Congo years ago, and Peterson, executive minister of the Department of World Mission, had been in Kinshasa for an all-pastors meeting in partnership with the Covenant church of Congo.<\/p>\n<p>The accompanying photo, taken at O&#8217;Hare International Airport in Chicago Sunday afternoon, shows (from left): Eileen Thorpe, one of the Thorpe&#8217;s daughters, Laurie; Roger Thorpe, and another daughter, Christine ; and Curt and Marti Peterson.<\/p>\n<p>To read earlier accounts of what transpired, search for the following stories previously published as part of this online Covenant News Service report:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thorpe, Peterson Prepare for Return Home<\/li>\n<li>Covenanters Reported Safe Amid Congo Violence<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire?moderation_action=report_form&#038;object_type=post&#038;object_id=3121&#038;width=250&#038;height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO, IL (March 25, 2007) \u2013 Covenanters Dr. Roger Thorpe and Curt Peterson arrived in Chicago this afternoon following several harrowing days in the midst of military conflict in the capital city of Kinshasa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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