{"id":2260,"date":"2013-09-21T11:21:46","date_gmt":"2013-09-21T18:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/?p=2260"},"modified":"2013-09-21T11:21:46","modified_gmt":"2013-09-21T18:21:46","slug":"the-team-said-good-bye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/the-team-said-good-bye\/","title":{"rendered":"The team said good bye&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are a team, so here is our <b>team<\/b> blog. This morning we were out the door by 9:15 a.m. for our last day at the orphanage. Upon our arrival the children were ecstatic to have the \u201cAmericans\u201d back for one last day.\u00a0 The day was filled with stories, games, laughter, fun and a farewell backpack for each child full of plenty of goodies to celebrate the culmination of our time together!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/group-picture.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2262\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/the-team-said-good-bye\/group-picture\/\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/group-picture.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1024,683\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS REBEL T4i&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1379725109&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;23&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;500&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.033333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"group picture\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/group-picture-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/group-picture.jpg\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2262\" alt=\"group picture\" src=\"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/group-picture-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/group-picture-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/group-picture-224x150.jpg 224w, http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/group-picture-150x100.jpg 150w, http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/group-picture.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>We were pleasantly surprised and delighted when we reviewed what we had shared, that the kids remembered all the crucial points that were the heart of our message.\u00a0 All the team members left the orphanage with a sense that we had accomplished God\u2019s mission for us here.\u00a0 Of course there was also a taste of sadness in our hearts as we said \u201cDasvedanya\u201d (good bye) one final time to the children who had captured our hearts.<\/p>\n<p>The afternoon was spent debriefing, as a group and personally reflecting on our time here.\u00a0 We all filled out evaluations, asked for by SunErgos, so that they may constantly be improving their ministry.\u00a0 The rest of the night was filled with lots of packing, one last shopping trip, showers, and a final yummy Russian home cooked meal.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re down fifty percent as it is approaching ten pm and we have to be up by about 2:45 am.\u00a0 So we are signing off and saying goodnight!\u00a0 We will be seeing you soon!!\u00a0\u00a0 Thank you so much for your prayers and your encouragement.\u00a0 It means more to us than we can say, we felt as though all of you were part of our team as well. \u00a0\u00a0God bless you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are a team, so here is our team blog. This morning we were out the door by 9:15 a.m. for our last day at the orphanage. Upon our arrival the children were ecstatic to have the \u201cAmericans\u201d back for one last day.\u00a0 The day was filled with stories, games, laughter, fun and a farewell backpack for each child full of plenty of goodies to celebrate the culmination of our time together! We were pleasantly surprised and delighted when we reviewed what we had shared, that the kids remembered all the crucial points that were the heart of our message.\u00a0 \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/the-team-said-good-bye\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[87,78,79,130],"tags":[33,38,41,57,131],"class_list":["post-2260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-st-petersburg-ministry","category-sunergos-ministry","category-teams-2","category-three-rivers-church","tag-missions","tag-orphans","tag-russia","tag-sunergos","tag-three-rivers-church-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2j3in-As","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2260"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2263,"href":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions\/2263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}