{"id":252,"date":"2011-10-28T18:46:04","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T23:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander\/?p=252"},"modified":"2011-10-28T18:46:04","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T23:46:04","slug":"people-meeting-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander\/2011\/10\/28\/people-meeting-people\/","title":{"rendered":"People, meeting, people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2011\/10\/IMG_6945.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-255\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2011\/10\/IMG_6945.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2011\/10\/IMG_6945.jpg 750w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2011\/10\/IMG_6945-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many people read the schedule that Mary Lou and Gary have and comment on how busy and full it is, wondering how we keep \u201cgoing at such a pace\u201d.\u00a0 (September 14-October 14 saw 17 people in our home and seven different meetings) The amount of people and meetings that we have hosted in our home this past year is a lot, but it is the reflection of a commitment that Mary Lou and Gary made five years ago when they were looking at how God would move their ministry with the Covenant in Colombia when their children were all out of the home \u2013 the \u201cempty nest\u201d period.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2011\/10\/IMG_6956.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-256\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2011\/10\/IMG_6956.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2011\/10\/IMG_6956.jpg 750w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2011\/10\/IMG_6956-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mary Lou and Gary wanted to be able to minister together and enjoy being a \u201cteam\u201d that worked together and actually were together.\u00a0 The previous 16 years of ministry in Colombia were also a \u201cteam\u201d experience but it was more of a \u201cteam\u201d experience with each one\u2014Mary Lou or Gary\u2014ministering while being supported and encouraged by the other who was taking care of family matters.\u00a0 In other words, we worked together to make ministry possible but we weren\u2019t necessarily able to actually be present together in the ministry.\u00a0 That changed when Gary and Mary Lou were the only two in the home.\u00a0 So, we committed ourselves to opening our home to host people and meetings and make the home a comfortable and useful place for all.\u00a0 Granted, some of the schedule gets heavy, but it also provides blessings all around. \u00a0Especially for Gary and Mary Lou.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=252&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people read the schedule that Mary Lou and Gary have and comment on how busy and full it is, wondering how we keep \u201cgoing at such a pace\u201d.\u00a0 (September 14-October 14 saw 17 people in our home and seven &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/sander\/2011\/10\/28\/people-meeting-people\/\">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-252","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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