{"id":53,"date":"2009-02-27T04:39:51","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T04:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/knowgst.ca\/blog\/?p=53"},"modified":"2009-02-27T04:39:51","modified_gmt":"2009-02-27T04:39:51","slug":"lots-of-good-byes-these-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knowgst.ca\/blog\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"Lots of good-byes these days&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been blessed with the fellowship of many special people over the last months.\u00c2\u00a0 Jack and Lucy Vogt and their son Joshua spent 4 months here as they escaped the Yukon winter to minister in many ways here in Arbol de Vida.\u00c2\u00a0 Teaching Bible &amp; English, Construction and team hosting plus\u00c2\u00a0many other ministries filled their time.\u00c2\u00a0 The Vogts left last Friday leaving many new friends behind.\u00c2\u00a0 We hope to see them back next winter.<\/p>\n<p>We have been blessed to have my sister-in-law Ardith&#8217;s parents, Paul &amp; Esther Weeks here for 3+ weeks.\u00c2\u00a0 They pull out tomorrow morning leaving a huge amount of blessing in many forms including: curtains for the church, some of the best cinnimon buns I&#8217;ve ever had\u00c2\u00a0(almost as good as yours, Mom!), 4 sets of bunk beds for the new dorm rooms, 3 cabinets for Sunday school rooms and many other needed wooden furniture type stuff for ministry in Arbol de Vida.\u00c2\u00a0 It was a joy to spend time with and be encouraged by &#8220;Grandpa and Grandma Weeks&#8221; (to our kids).\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow we also say good-bye to Laura Linares, who heads back to South Carolina to her family.\u00c2\u00a0 Laura and her husband and two daughters\u00c2\u00a0spent 3 years in Agua Viva\/Arbol de Vida and have a special place in our hearts.<\/p>\n<p>Good-bye for now&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Greg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been blessed with the fellowship of many special people over the last months.\u00c2\u00a0 Jack and Lucy Vogt and their son Joshua spent 4 months here as they escaped the Yukon winter to minister in many ways here in Arbol de Vida.\u00c2\u00a0 Teaching Bible &amp; English, Construction and team hosting plus\u00c2\u00a0many other ministries filled their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ministry","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knowgst.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knowgst.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knowgst.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knowgst.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knowgst.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/knowgst.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55,"href":"https:\/\/knowgst.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knowgst.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knowgst.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knowgst.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}