{"id":7343,"date":"2017-07-18T00:56:36","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T23:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/?p=7343"},"modified":"2017-07-20T11:06:45","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T10:06:45","slug":"firstserve-update-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/2017\/07\/firstserve-update-17\/","title":{"rendered":"FirstServe Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Craig and Sarah begin their journey home today from their FirstServe placement in Zambia, which brings them to the end of their programme. Please pray:<br \/>\n&#8211; for safe flights<br \/>\n&#8211; that their luggage would arrive with them!<br \/>\n&#8211; that coming back to the UK wouldn&#8217;t be too hard a transition for them. They&#8217;ve seem very young children (orphans) taking on responsibilities that children here wouldn&#8217;t dream of, and have no need to. Please pray that the &#8216;reverse culture shock&#8217; wouldn&#8217;t be too bad.<br \/>\n&#8211; pray too for those they have said goodbye to in Zambia &#8211; strong bonds have been forged<br \/>\nPray that as they reflect on their time in Africa that God will make the next steps very clear.<br \/>\nOnce they&#8217;ve had time to settle back into home life we&#8217;ll post a fuller update.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/2017\/07\/firstserve-update-17\/19430159_1824237640926821_4766723323387326281_n\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7348\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/19430159_1824237640926821_4766723323387326281_n-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/19430159_1824237640926821_4766723323387326281_n-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/19430159_1824237640926821_4766723323387326281_n.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/first-serve.org.uk\/\" title=\"FirstServe\" target=\"_blank\">FirstServe<\/a> is a unique discipleship and missions programme, primarily for 18-25 year-olds on a gap year, or those with a shorter time available.<\/p>\n<p>Gordon is part of the FistServe Steering Group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Craig and Sarah begin their journey home today from their FirstServe placement in Zambia, which brings them to the end of their programme. Please pray: &#8211; for safe flights &#8211; that their luggage would arrive with them! &#8211; that coming back to the UK wouldn&#8217;t be too hard a transition for them. They&#8217;ve seem very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7343"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7349,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7343\/revisions\/7349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}