{"id":3598,"date":"2015-02-23T08:58:25","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T12:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/?p=3598"},"modified":"2015-02-23T09:01:01","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T13:01:01","slug":"what-a-blessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/?p=3598","title":{"rendered":"What a blessing!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of you who have been following us for a while will remember our good friends Ruben and Amparo Rocha at the Covenant Campgrounds in Santo Domingo. \u00a0You&#8217;ll remember that the campgrounds have many needs. \u00a0One of these was the need for a riding lawn mower to make the grass cutting less grueling. \u00a0For the camp employees, mowing all of the lawn required three full days of labor with a push mower. \u00a0Well, a neat thing that we were able to help out was with assisting in transporting a donated lawn mower from Ohio to Ecuador on our container. \u00a0We had the joy of turning this lawn mower as well as a brand new weedwacker over to Ruben and Amparo. \u00a0And as soon as they got there, they put it to use as you can see in the second picture. \u00a0What a blessing to be able to share in this kind of way!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/02\/Rochas_Mower.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3599\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/02\/Rochas_Mower.jpg\" alt=\"Rochas_Mower\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/02\/Rochas_Mower.jpg 960w, https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/02\/Rochas_Mower-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/02\/Ruben_Mower.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3600\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/02\/Ruben_Mower.jpg\" alt=\"Ruben_Mower\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/02\/Ruben_Mower.jpg 960w, https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/02\/Ruben_Mower-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=3598&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of you who have been following us for a while will remember our good friends Ruben and Amparo Rocha at the Covenant Campgrounds in Santo Domingo. \u00a0You&#8217;ll remember that the campgrounds have many needs. \u00a0One of these was the need for a riding lawn mower to make the grass cutting less grueling. \u00a0For the &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/?p=3598\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100,124,42,508,72],"tags":[24667,186,24652,24649,24657,24651],"class_list":["post-3598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-of-directors","category-ecuador","category-ministry","category-santo-domingo","category-updates","tag-board-of-directors","tag-ecuador-info","tag-family-fun","tag-ministry","tag-santo-domingo","tag-updates"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What a blessing! 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