{"id":18,"date":"2008-04-09T18:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T22:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.covchurch.org\/mission\/the-great-co-mission\/devalued-dollar-impedes-covenant-missionaries"},"modified":"2008-07-24T08:13:09","modified_gmt":"2008-07-24T13:13:09","slug":"devalued-dollar-impedes-covenant-missionaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/serveglobally\/2008\/04\/09\/devalued-dollar-impedes-covenant-missionaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Devalued Dollar Impedes Covenant Missionaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">CHICAGO, IL (March 26, 2008) \u2013 The devaluation of the U.S. dollar against foreign currencies is reducing the money missionaries have to work with.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The decline has made it more difficult for us to do ministry, and the problem has become more acute in the last three months,\u201d says Byron Amundsen, director of administration and finance for the Evangelical Covenant Church\u2019s Department of World Mission (CWM).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.covchurch.org\/cov\/news\/item6191\">Read the rest of the article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/serveglobally?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=18&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO, IL (March 26, 2008) \u2013 The devaluation of the U.S. dollar against foreign currencies is reducing the money missionaries have to work with. 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