{"id":11623,"date":"2024-09-05T18:51:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T00:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/?p=11623"},"modified":"2024-08-01T18:54:06","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T00:54:06","slug":"retro-before-the-las-palmas-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2024\/retro-before-the-las-palmas-church.html","title":{"rendered":"Retro: Before the Las Palmas Church&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- wp:themify-builder\/canvas \/-->\n\n\n<p><strong>Ten years ago today<\/strong>, we were having a kids&#8217; club in the community of Las Palmas. This special outreach was in partnership with some friends from the church in the community of Santa Barbara, the &#8220;first&#8221; Path of Life Bible Church in Ixtapaluca.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s pretty cool, but there&#8217;s something else cool about this picture. Two of the little kids that you see here learning about the Lord Jesus are now in our youth group. 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