{"id":2406,"date":"2014-08-17T10:35:23","date_gmt":"2014-08-17T17:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/?p=2406"},"modified":"2014-08-17T10:35:23","modified_gmt":"2014-08-17T17:35:23","slug":"ffmc-on-their-way-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/ffmc-on-their-way-home\/","title":{"rendered":"FFMC: On their way home."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What a week full of love, laughter, acceptance, friendship, hugs and tears.\u00a0 The First Free Methodist Team is on their way home. Right now they are flying over the Atlantic Ocean; sad to leave Russia, but excited to see their family and friends.\u00a0 It was a blessing to have each team member be a part of SunErgos&#8217; ministry and to pour God&#8217;s love upon the children at the orphanage.\u00a0 The seeds planted will have a ripple effect in the future months and years.<\/p>\n<p>Please pray for safety as the team flies home and adjusts to the 11 hour time difference.\u00a0 We hope that you, the family and friends, will take the time to hear the stories that touched the team. Take time to look through all the pictures and let them tell you the funny things that happened along the way. Take time to listen to the stories of each child that touched the team this week, the heartaches and the joys.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your prayers, encouragement and support. It was felt all the way in St Petersburg, Russia.\u00a0 Thank you and we hope that someday we will see some of you, the ones who are only reading this blog, in Russia!<\/p>\n<p>May God bless you as you continue to live out the true religion by serving the fatherless and the widow in their distress. (James 1:27)<\/p>\n<p><em>Tatiana Mendakoff, Director and Co-Founder of SunErgos International<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_9778-e1408296606213.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2392\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/ffmc-last-day-with-the-kids\/img_9778\/\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_9778-e1408296606213.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"716,563\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&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;1408062821&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;18&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;2000&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.033333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_9778\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_9778-e1408296606213-300x235.jpg\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_9778-e1408296606213.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2392\" src=\"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_9778-e1408296606213-300x235.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9778\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_9778-e1408296606213-300x235.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_9778-e1408296606213-190x150.jpg 190w, http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_9778-e1408296606213-150x117.jpg 150w, http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_9778-e1408296606213.jpg 716w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a week full of love, laughter, acceptance, friendship, hugs and tears.\u00a0 The First Free Methodist Team is on their way home. Right now they are flying over the Atlantic Ocean; sad to leave Russia, but excited to see their family and friends.\u00a0 It was a blessing to have each team member be a part of SunErgos&#8217; ministry and to pour God&#8217;s love upon the children at the orphanage.\u00a0 The seeds planted will have a ripple effect in the future months and years. Please pray for safety as the team flies home and adjusts to the 11 hour time difference.\u00a0 \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/ffmc-on-their-way-home\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2392,"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":[84,78,79],"tags":[20,23,33,38,41,110,57],"class_list":["post-2406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ffmc-teams-2","category-sunergos-ministry","category-teams-2","tag-ffmc","tag-first-free-methodist-church","tag-missions","tag-orphans","tag-russia","tag-service","tag-sunergos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_9778-e1408296606213.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2j3in-CO","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406","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=2406"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2410,"href":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406\/revisions\/2410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}