{"id":8110,"date":"2006-01-12T19:01:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-13T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire\/?p=8110"},"modified":"2011-07-06T08:29:33","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T13:29:33","slug":"gripping-tsunami-story-featured-in-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire\/2006\/01\/12\/gripping-tsunami-story-featured-in-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Gripping Tsunami Story Featured in Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO, IL (January 12, 2006)  &#8211; A failed attempt to book a beachside bungalow  and a timely breakfast saved the lives of teenagers Matt and Andy Dwight  as well as the rest of their family when the deadly December 2004  tsunami slammed into the island where they were vacationing.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>They are the children of Don and Lillian Dwight, Covenant missionaries  to Taiwan. Matt, 17, and Andy, 15, have their experience detailed in the  current edition of <em>Breakaway,<\/em> a magazine for teenagers published  by Focus on the Family. Evangelical Covenant Church pastor Greg  Asimakoupoulos wrote the full-length feature.<\/p>\n<p>Several months before traveling to Phi Phi Island, a popular vacation  spot near Thailand, Don tried to reserve a beachfront cottage, but they  all had been rented. So he reserved one on the hillside further away  from the beach.<\/p>\n<p>In what they say started out as a &#8220;perfect day&#8221; &#8211; December 26 &#8211; the  family had breakfast at a hotel restaurant on the beach. The Dwights  then trekked back up the hill to change into swimsuits.<\/p>\n<p>While they were changing, the incredible tsunami wave hit with  devastating force. The restaurant at which they had been eating just 15  minutes earlier was completely submerged under water. The beachside  bungalows the Dwights had tried to reserve were ripped apart and had  disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>The family was able to escape the island and return home over the course  of the next several days.<\/p>\n<p>To read more of the gripping details as described by the Dwight sons,  please see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breakawaymag.com\/AllTheRest\/A000000178.cfm#\">Tsunami  Survivors.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2011 The Evangelical Covenant Church.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire?moderation_action=report_form&#038;object_type=post&#038;object_id=8110&#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 (January 12, 2006) &#8211; A failed attempt to book a beachside bungalow and a timely breakfast saved the lives of teenagers Matt and Andy Dwight as well as the rest of their family when the deadly December 2004 tsunami slammed into the island where they were vacationing. 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