{"id":6762,"date":"2014-12-08T13:33:36","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T19:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/?p=6762"},"modified":"2014-12-08T14:20:17","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T20:20:17","slug":"appreciation-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2014\/appreciation-dinner.html","title":{"rendered":"Appreciation Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night we went to the annual Appreciation Dinner which is held to appreciate Christian leaders from Bible Churches in the Mexico City area.<\/p>\n<p>We heard from a Mexican family who is preparing to go to Spain as missionaries. We also had a special time of appreciation for Camino Global missionaries Rollie and Jo Ann Smith (pictured below). The Smiths have served on the field for 45 years, in Mexico for 33 years.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/rollie-joann.jpg\" alt=\"Rollie and Jo Ann Smith\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6763\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/rollie-joann.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/rollie-joann-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><br \/>We joined the Sendero Santa Barbara Church choir to sing five Christmas songs to start the evening off. Below is a video of one of the songs you may not know, a Christmas song from Argentina, sung not by us but by another group. The group below may or may not be better than we were. 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