{"id":11499,"date":"2024-01-19T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/?p=11499"},"modified":"2024-01-19T11:46:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T17:46:19","slug":"retro-how-many-kids-can-fit-in-one-van","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2024\/retro-how-many-kids-can-fit-in-one-van.html","title":{"rendered":"Retro: How Many Kids can fit in One Van?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- wp:themify-builder\/canvas \/-->\n\n\n<p>This may seem like a boring picture, taken 10 years ago today, but it really should have been a video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-style-rounded\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"313\" src=\"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/packedvan.jpg\" alt=\"a packed van\" class=\"wp-image-11500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/packedvan.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/packedvan-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator aligncenter has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>10 years ago the church in the community of Jes\u00fas Mar\u00eda didn&#8217;t have a building &#8211; they were renting the biggest place available in the neighbourhood, and were still packing it out every Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was no place for the kids to be taught, so we would pack them into our blue van and ship them somewhere else, and then bring them back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The van would arrive, and every door would open &#8211; even the back hatch (it&#8217;s just starting to open in the picture) &#8211; and kids would <em>pour out!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank the Lord, the church now has its own building, and plenty of room for kids and teens and adults and community events and all kinds of evangelism and discipleship!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This may seem like a boring picture, taken 10 years ago today, but it really should have been a video. 10 years ago the church in the community of Jes\u00fas Mar\u00eda didn&#8217;t have a building &#8211; they were renting the biggest place available in the neighbourhood, and were still packing it out every Sunday. 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