{"id":69,"date":"2010-01-23T03:46:06","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T03:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/redletters\/2010\/01\/pictures-from-south-africa-and-swaziland.html"},"modified":"2010-01-23T03:46:06","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T03:46:06","slug":"pictures-from-south-africa-and-swaziland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/redletters\/2010\/01\/pictures-from-south-africa-and-swaziland.html","title":{"rendered":"Pictures from South Africa and Swaziland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomdavis.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d83451b7fa69e201287703fd38970c-pi\"><\/a> <br \/>&#160;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/tomdavis.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d83451b7fa69e20120a800d76c970b-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Swaziland Riaan &amp; Barry\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451b7fa69e20120a800d76c970b \" src=\"https:\/\/tomdavis.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d83451b7fa69e20120a800d76c970b-500pi\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So excited to see what&#160;<a href=\"http:\/\/hopechest.org\/\">Children&#039;s HopeChest <\/a>is accomplishing across Africa.&#160;New Pictures up from this trip on my&#160;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/album.php?aid=200726&amp;id=791064551&amp;ref=mf\">Facebook Account<\/a>. Click&#160;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/album.php?aid=200726&amp;id=791064551&amp;ref=mf\">here to see.<\/a>&#160;This is Riaan Heynes and Barry Huggins. Riaan is the Missions pastor at&#160;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newlifechurch.org\/\">New Life Church in Colorado Springs.<\/a>&#160;They just cancelled our flight here in Swaziland back to Johannesburg. No phone call, no warning! Hoping to get on the next one so we can catch our flight to Washington DC this evening. It&#039;s the middle of summer here and burning hot. I need to get back to my family and winter in Colorado!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#160; So excited to see what&#160;Children&#039;s HopeChest is accomplishing across Africa.&#160;New Pictures up from this trip on my&#160;Facebook Account. Click&#160;here to see.&#160;This is Riaan Heynes and Barry Huggins. 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