{"id":620,"date":"2007-06-27T08:53:20","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T13:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2007\/sharis-sister-heads-to-africa.html"},"modified":"2007-06-27T08:53:20","modified_gmt":"2007-06-27T13:53:20","slug":"sharis-sister-heads-to-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2007\/sharis-sister-heads-to-africa.html","title":{"rendered":"Shari&#8217;s sister heads to Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/images\/sudan-rain.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"175\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Sudan rain\"><\/center><br \/>Shari&#8217;s sister Amy, author of the blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.undertheafricanrain.com\/\"><b>Under the African Rain<\/b><\/a>, is about to head south.<\/p>\n<p>Right now Amy is in London, England. &nbsp;<b>On the 1st of July she&#8217;ll be heading to Nairobi, Kenya<\/b>, to be involved in some meetings to discuss the beginnings of some new health care work in <b>southern Sudan<\/b>. &nbsp;Then she&#8217;ll be going through some orientation, and she&#8217;ll need to buy some more supplies for her hut in Sudan.<\/p>\n<p>We just have to praise the Lord for providing for Amy &#8211; for providing for her as she took her training in child nursing, and then providing for her to be able to go to Sudan.<\/p>\n<p>Amy doesn&#8217;t know yet when she&#8217;ll actually be heading to Sudan, but when she arrives she&#8217;ll be working with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sim.org\/involved.asp?fun=12&#038;fun2=1&#038;prid=156\">Memorial Health Care Center and Training School<\/a>. &nbsp;You can click the link to learn more, but the hope is to provide health care and train more local people to provide health care. &nbsp;I&#8217;m sure Amy would appreciate your prayers as she travels!<\/p>\n<p><b>Travel with Amy &#8211;<\/b> If you have <b><a href=\"http:\/\/earth.google.com\/\">Google Earth<\/a><\/b>, you can download a file and see Amy&#8217;s travels from Canada to England to Kenya to Sudan (not every stop, just the main locations!). &nbsp;Just click on the map below. &nbsp;Once in Google Earth, click on Tools, then Play Tour.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/CottrillCompass.com\/amy-travels.kmz\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/images\/kenya-sudan.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"340\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Sudan and Kenya - click for Google Earth file\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shari&#8217;s sister Amy, author of the blog Under the African Rain, is about to head south. 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