{"id":5813,"date":"2014-07-31T12:16:52","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T17:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/?p=5813"},"modified":"2014-07-31T12:16:52","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T17:16:52","slug":"yes-we-are-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2014\/yes-we-are-home.html","title":{"rendered":"Yes, we are home."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Home, and glad to be home! &nbsp;Exhausted, but nothing a week of (solid) sleep won&#8217;t cure. \ud83d\ude09 <\/p>\n<p>As I posted earlier, we figure <b>we travelled about 28,380km, or 17,634mi<\/b>. &nbsp;That&#8217;s about 70% of the circumference of the earth.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, look at it this way &#8211; if you could go directly (as the crow flies) from Toronto, Canada to Rome, Italy, and then fly back &#8211; and then fly to Rome and back to Toronto again &#8211; that would be a little less than the distance we travelled by van (and a little by train) since the 17th of April.<\/p>\n<p>So we thank God for His grace over that time and distance!<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re very thankful to have had the opportunity to share God&#8217;s Word, connect churches outside of Mexico with the Mexican church, pray with many of you, visit family, and also get some practical things done to prepare for future ministry.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to tell you more about our trip, but there&#8217;s a lot to do over the next few days (including, I hope, sleep!), so we&#8217;ll have to get to that later.&nbsp;&nbsp;Meanwhile, thanks to so many who prayed and helped and encouraged us over the past weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home, and glad to be home! &nbsp;Exhausted, but nothing a week of (solid) sleep won&#8217;t cure. \ud83d\ude09 As I posted earlier, we figure we travelled about 28,380km, or 17,634mi. &nbsp;That&#8217;s about 70% of the circumference of the earth. 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