{"id":3245,"date":"2014-06-11T09:56:38","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T09:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/?p=3245"},"modified":"2014-06-11T09:56:38","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T09:56:38","slug":"furlough-prep-4-some-of-my-favorite-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/2014\/06\/11\/furlough-prep-4-some-of-my-favorite-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Furlough Prep 4: Some Of My Favorite Things"},"content":{"rendered":"

What are Some of Your Favorite Things About Where you live?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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No matter how big the crowd I can always easily find my kids<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our Church – <\/strong>God has filled us with a love for his church here and we are so honored to be a part of it!
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Even though we still stick out our church here has allowed us to become part of them<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Relationships – <\/strong>We treasure the relationships we have here and are excited to see how God will use them.
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It is refreshing to be in a place where relationships are so important<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Raising Our Kids Here –<\/strong> Although there are many challenges they face, there are a lot of benefits.\u00a0 Our kids now speak another language, they take less for granted, and are more aware of the differences in people.<\/p>\n

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Our kids have learned the costs on integration<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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And the wonder of seeing God at work!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Music<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The rhythms quickly enter your soul<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The freedom to dance is contagious<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Food\u00a0 <\/strong>– This has taken us a while to get used to, but we love the food here.<\/p>\n

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Each dish is always a work of art<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Clothes – <\/strong>Who says that Bright Green and Bright Pink can’t go together?\u00a0 Have no fear…plaid and strips are totally fine.\u00a0 The brighter, bolder and sparklier the better.\u00a0 The world of choice opens up before your eyes
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The bright colors are so much fun<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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And all the clothes are tailored made to fit you<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

BUT MOST OF ALL… <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Knowing we are right where God would have us be! Which is always the best place to be.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What are Some of Your Favorite Things About Where you live? Our Church – God has filled us with a love for his church here and we are so honored to be a part of it! Relationships – We treasure the relationships we have here and are excited to see how God will use them. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":830,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2545],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3245","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-updates-and-news","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}