{"id":934,"date":"2021-10-17T20:02:42","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T03:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/?p=934"},"modified":"2021-10-17T20:02:42","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T03:02:42","slug":"benin-update-on-the-plane-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/?p=934","title":{"rendered":"Benin Update | On the Plane Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Thank you for praying for my trip to West Africa. The trip went well, and with God&#8217;s help, some technical issues moved forward. Unfortunately, one of the engineers who planned on joining us did not receive his passport back in time. The other engineer, who was ill at the time of my last update, recovered and made the trip. Below are a few photos from the trip. Praise God for a good trip.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">This week I board a plane\u2014again\u2014for Kenya to teach the synchronous portion of two hybrid classes and connect with my Kenyan colleagues. Please pray for:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">all the COVID stuff involved with international travel<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">my time with the students at Africa Theological Seminary (ATS)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">my time connecting, planning, and fellowshipping with the ATS faculty.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Donna will be holding down the fort here in North Texas. She would appreciate your prayers as we once again say goodbye.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-935\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2021\/10\/Benin_Trip_lr-500x122.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Benin_Trip_lr-500x122.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Benin_Trip_lr-300x73.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Benin_Trip_lr-768x187.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Benin_Trip_lr-1536x373.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Benin_Trip_lr.jpeg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for praying for my trip to West Africa. The trip went well, and with God&#8217;s help, some technical issues moved forward. Unfortunately, one of the engineers who planned on joining us did not receive his passport back in time. The other engineer, who was ill at the time of my last update, recovered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prayer-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":936,"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions\/936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cox-net.com\/prayer_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}