{"id":188,"date":"2011-08-22T17:42:35","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T22:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander\/?p=188"},"modified":"2011-08-22T17:42:35","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T22:42:35","slug":"getting-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander\/2011\/08\/22\/getting-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2011\/08\/norge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-175\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2011\/08\/norge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2011\/08\/norge.jpg 290w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2011\/08\/norge-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mission staffs often get together for a staff retreat.\u00a0 Since our staff has consisted of just Mary Lou, Gary and Cathy Campobello for the past five years, we have often gotten together, just not often in a retreat format.\u00a0 In the past two years that is changing as we are once again getting together as a staff (we have added three short-term missionaries in the past three months) and we are doing it with our co-workers from the Norwegian Covenant Church Mission.\u00a0 In the early 90\u2019s the Norwegian Mission staff and our Covenant Mission staff often got together and even participated in annual retreats.\u00a0 We got out of the habit of doing this in the late 90\u2019s and until two years ago.\u00a0 But, now, we have done this three years in a row and it has proven to be a blessing for all of us.\u00a0 And, the staff keeps growing and changing every year, which makes the retreat a very important time for continuing to get to know each other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=188&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mission staffs often get together for a staff retreat.\u00a0 Since our staff has consisted of just Mary Lou, Gary and Cathy Campobello for the past five years, we have often gotten together, just not often in a retreat format.\u00a0 In &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander\/2011\/08\/22\/getting-together\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","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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