{"id":2169,"date":"2012-06-19T11:57:25","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T15:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.handsful.com\/?p=2169"},"modified":"2014-06-15T09:04:28","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T13:04:28","slug":"ohio-bound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2169","title":{"rendered":"Ohio bound&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"\" title=\"\" rel=\"\" class=\"flickr-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm.static.flickr.com\/\/_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" title=\"\" longdesc=\"\" \/><\/a>\n<p>Six kids, a dog, 4 duffle bags, backpacks, sleeping bags, and pillows were piled into the van this morning at the lovely hour of 6:15am.  Abbey, Marley, Payton, and Ethan are off on their first Testify youth choir tour to Ohio!<\/p>\n<a href=\"\" title=\"\" rel=\"\" class=\"flickr-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm.static.flickr.com\/\/_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" title=\"\" longdesc=\"\" \/><\/a>\n<p>After everyone arrived, Susan gathered everyone in the church for some &#8220;pumping up&#8221; time&#8230;devotion and prayer, plus a couple of songs (well, they ARE a choir&#8230;)<\/p>\n<a href=\"\" title=\"\" rel=\"\" class=\"flickr-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm.static.flickr.com\/\/_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" title=\"\" longdesc=\"\" \/><\/a>\n<p>Even after nagging&#8230;I mean reminding them about the main things they needed, someone still forgot her pillow.  Here she is happy that her weary momma drove back home to get it for her.<\/p>\n<a href=\"\" title=\"\" rel=\"\" class=\"flickr-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm.static.flickr.com\/\/_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" title=\"\" longdesc=\"\" \/><\/a>\n<p>After making sure I got hugs from all, they boarded the bus and we waited to wave goodbye.  The littles entertained themselves by lovin&#8217; on their friend, Jackson.<\/p>\n<a href=\"\" title=\"\" rel=\"\" class=\"flickr-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm.static.flickr.com\/\/_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" title=\"\" longdesc=\"\" \/><\/a>\n<p>I won&#8217;t lie, I got a little choked up and teary after walking back to the van.  It&#8217;s hard to let your kids go THAT far away without you for 6 days\/5 nights.  I&#8217;ll be praying a lot :)  I know they are in good hands, both physically (all the chaperons and counselors are fabulous) and spiritually&#8230;God is ALL over this tour, and I can&#8217;t wait to hear how He moves in the hearts of these kids and in the people they encounter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six kids, a dog, 4 duffle bags, backpacks, sleeping bags, and pillows were piled into the van this morning at the lovely hour of 6:15am. Abbey, Marley, Payton, and Ethan are off on their first Testify youth choir tour to Ohio! After everyone arrived, Susan gathered everyone in the church for some &#8220;pumping up&#8221; time&#8230;devotion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}