{"id":18,"date":"2004-09-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-01T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-08-02T08:53:31","modified_gmt":"2007-08-02T12:53:31","slug":"friends-from-the-faroe-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rocky-niclasen\/2004\/09\/01\/friends-from-the-faroe-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends from the Faroe Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartImportPhoto--><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rocky-niclasen\/files\/2004\/09\/1274_19653.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-104\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;margin-bottom: 5px\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rocky-niclasen\/files\/2004\/09\/1274_19653.jpg\" alt=\"Going down town on the bus.\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><!--EndImportPhoto--><\/p>\n<p>We have been so blessed these past 3 weeks spending time with our Faroese friends, Joannis and Jona Skorheim.&nbsp; Introducing them to Filipino life was great &#8211; showing them the church where we worship in Manila, the market where we buy our meat, fruits and veggies; acquainting them with our friends, tasting lots of new foods and trying various modes of transportation like jeepneys and tricycles.<\/p>\n<p>We also had a few fun day trips, one of them being to Tagaytay where a small boat took us across Lake Taal where we rode horses up the hill to see the active volcano.&nbsp; That being followed by a lovely dinner in a garden made it a memorable day.&nbsp; Other days we spent in Baguio, Banaue and Corrigidor Island where Douglas MacArthur spoke his famous words, &quot;I Shall Return.&quot;&nbsp; Another special event was attending a Sunday morning service in the Kalanguya tribe.&nbsp; Seeing the believers leading the service and teaching the Word is the bottom line of why we are here, so that is always a huge encouragement.<\/p>\n<p>They also were able to spend time with the other two Faroese couples here &#8211; Olavur &amp; Asa Jokladal who work at Faith Academy, and JJ &amp; Cathy Rasmussen doing translation work on Palawan.&nbsp; Not only was it a fun and refreshing time for us to have our friends here, we are also thankful they can take a report back to our home church in the Faroes and share with the believers there what God is doing here in the Philippines.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introducing them to Filipino life was great -walking around the market where we buy our meat, fruits and veggies &#8211; trying various modes of transportation like jeepneys and tricycles.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rocky-niclasen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rocky-niclasen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rocky-niclasen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rocky-niclasen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rocky-niclasen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rocky-niclasen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rocky-niclasen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rocky-niclasen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}