{"id":194,"date":"2011-08-22T17:46:45","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T22:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander\/?p=194"},"modified":"2011-08-22T17:46:45","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T22:46:45","slug":"higher-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander\/2011\/08\/22\/higher-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2011\/08\/Anderson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-170\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2011\/08\/Anderson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2011\/08\/Anderson.jpg 320w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2011\/08\/Anderson-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2011\/08\/Anderson-150x99.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2011 has been a year with less rain, so far.\u00a0 But, 2009 and 2010 set records in Colombia with the amounts of rain.\u00a0 One of those locations which was receiving large amounts of rain was Barranquilla, specifically, the 20<sup>th<\/sup> of July neighborhood where the 20<sup>th<\/sup> of July Covenant Church is located.\u00a0 What increased the concern for many of us was that Pastor Anderson Ortega and his wife and five daughters lived in the Church building, which was right in the way of the flooding run-off (the top left picture shows the flooding damage in the Church parsonage.\u00a0 A campaign was started to get Pastor Anderson and his family to higher ground.\u00a0 Pastor Anderson began to look for house options, the Lakehills Covenant Church took a special Christmas eve offering, a Norwegian Covenant family gave a gift, and things began to come together.\u00a0 Last Sunday evening, Pastor Anderson and his family were able to move into a new house!\u00a0 We were able to celebrate God\u2019s goodness with a \u201ctoast\u201d of Apple soda with the Ortega family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=194&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2011 has been a year with less rain, so far.\u00a0 But, 2009 and 2010 set records in Colombia with the amounts of rain.\u00a0 One of those locations which was receiving large amounts of rain was Barranquilla, specifically, the 20th of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander\/2011\/08\/22\/higher-ground\/\">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-194","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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