{"id":7605,"date":"2015-11-13T19:00:29","date_gmt":"2015-11-14T01:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/?p=7605"},"modified":"2015-11-07T18:40:36","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T00:40:36","slug":"our-history-ok-just-a-bit-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2015\/our-history-ok-just-a-bit-of-it.html","title":{"rendered":"Our History (ok, just a bit of it)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this month&#8217;s newsletter you&#8217;ll see, as I mentioned before, a rather egocentric view of history, featuring our own journey. It was actually interesting to track down some of those dates, which I had no clear record of.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/nathanael-hannah-mexico2006.jpg\" alt=\"Nathanael and Hannah November 2006\" width=\"300\" height=\"473\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7606\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/nathanael-hannah-mexico2006.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/nathanael-hannah-mexico2006-190x300.jpg 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The picture to the right is a larger version of the one in our newsletter. It&#8217;s Nathanael and Hannah, of course, only three days after we had arrived in Mexico. We still weren&#8217;t at our destination (Cuernavaca), but we were staying with our new friends the McManus Family in San Juan del R\u00c3\u00ado.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s our very first post from Mexico: <i><a href=\"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2006\/the-cottrills-are-in-mexico.html\">The Cottrills are in Mexico<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>And as a follow-up, <i><a href=\"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2006\/the-conference-and-how-i-missed-it.html\">The conference (and how I missed it)<\/a><\/i> (by the way, I haven&#8217;t been anywhere <i>near<\/i> that sick since!)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I wrote soon before we moved to Ixtapaluca (we moved officially 6 days later): <i><a href=\"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2008\/still-in-cuernavaca.html\">Still in Cuernavaca<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>From the leadership recognition service in Santa B\u00c3\u00a1rbara, Ixtapaluca &#8211; a post and even a video: <i><a href=\"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2009\/a-very-special-sunday-for-sendero-de-vida.html\">A Very Special Sunday for Sendero de Vida!<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>How can I forget the first Sunday service in Jes\u00c3\u00bas Mar\u00c3\u00ada &#8211; even though I didn&#8217;t attend! <i><a href=\"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2010\/the-first-worship-service-in-jesus-maria.html\">The First Worship Service in Jes\u00c3\u00bas Mar\u00c3\u00ada<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>And how about the leadership recognition service in Jes\u00c3\u00bas Mar\u00c3\u00ada? <i><a href=\"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2012\/leadership-recognition-service-in-jesus-maria.html\">Leadership Recognition Service in Jes\u00c3\u00bas Mar\u00c3\u00ada<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>An early post about ministry in Las Palmas: <i><a href=\"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2014\/classes-among-the-palm-trees.html\">Classes Among the Palm Trees<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Of course there are many more memorable times, but there are just a few I mentioned in our newsletter. 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