{"id":2234,"date":"2013-02-03T15:56:59","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T19:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/?p=2234"},"modified":"2013-02-03T15:57:51","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T19:57:51","slug":"off-to-midwinter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/?p=2234","title":{"rendered":"Off to Midwinter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2013\/02\/mwad-bg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2235\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2013\/02\/mwad-bg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"536\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2013\/02\/mwad-bg.jpg 670w, https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2013\/02\/mwad-bg-300x111.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 536px) 100vw, 536px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px\">Joel will be leaving for San Diego, California tomorrow (the 4th) for the Annual Covenant Pastors Conference which is called Midwinter. \u00a0Midwinter is a time when Covenant pastors, missionaries and chaplains come together to learn, worship and fellowship. \u00a0This conference had been in Chicago (where the denominational\u00a0headquarters\u00a0are located) every year in the past but they recently started moving it to another location every other year. \u00a0Joel lucked out by the fact that this year is one of those odd years and it just happens to be in warm California. \u00a0This conference will be timely for us by the fact that we are in process of setting up church visits for the year. \u00a0Joel should hopefully be able to meet with and see pastors that he can hopefully setup more of our visits with Covenant churches. \u00a0Please pray for that, traveling mercies and the family being a part for 5 days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=2234&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joel will be leaving for San Diego, California tomorrow (the 4th) for the Annual Covenant Pastors Conference which is called Midwinter. \u00a0Midwinter is a time when Covenant pastors, missionaries and chaplains come together to learn, worship and fellowship. \u00a0This conference had been in Chicago (where the denominational\u00a0headquarters\u00a0are located) every year in the past but they &hellip; 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