{"id":3163,"date":"2018-12-28T03:01:44","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T09:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hopeold.tadtime.dev\/?p=3163"},"modified":"2018-12-28T03:01:44","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T09:01:44","slug":"friday-12-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hopeministries.co\/friday-12-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday, 12\/28"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\" \"\"<\/p>\n

This is my African family that are at Ahadi. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Hi Everyone,<\/p>\n

Just a quick note to let you all know that I have arrived safely in TZ. \u00a0I was greeted at the airport by Julius and Freeman. \u00a0It always warms my heart to see their smiling faces and get their warm Tanzanian welcomes. \u00a0I had about an hour drive to get to Ahadi Lodge, so I was able to have some great conversations and laughs with them. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Remember I always say that you need to remain flexible when you are in Africa, well we had to park the car and the guys from the lodge came to help carry my luggage as we walked to the lodge. \u00a0The road was all tore up and had big holes were they are repairing some broken sewer lines. \u00a0They say they should be fixed in a couple of days, but I have seen what a couple of days is here. \u00a0<\/p>\n

I brought a box of chocolates for a Christmas gift for the staff at Ahadi Lodge. \u00a0They are like family to me and always treat me and my team so well. \u00a0They were excited and so gracious for the delicious chocolates. \u00a0The things that we take for granted at home are quit a joy to receive here. \u00a0<\/p>\n

The day after Christmas is called Boxing Day here, which is the day that you give Christmas gifts. \u00a0I was asking everyone what type of Christmas gifts that they received and they said they do not give or get gifts because they cannot afford them, so it is not part of their Christmas like it is for ours. \u00a0We need to all reflect back on our wonderful Christmas holiday and be grateful for the Christmas goodies, home cooked meals, presence of family and the wonderful gifts that we received. \u00a0The one thing that is the biggest gift of all to the people of Tanzania is the celebration of the birth of Jesus at Christmas. \u00a0That is the greatest gift of all!\u00a0<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is my African family that are at Ahadi. \u00a0 Hi Everyone, Just a quick note to let you all know that I have arrived safely in TZ. \u00a0I was greeted at the airport by Julius and Freeman. \u00a0It always warms my heart to see their smiling faces and get their warm Tanzanian welcomes. \u00a0I … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopeministries.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopeministries.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopeministries.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopeministries.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopeministries.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hopeministries.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopeministries.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopeministries.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopeministries.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopeministries.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}