{"id":404,"date":"2009-12-20T05:06:36","date_gmt":"2009-12-20T12:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonandlayne.com\/?p=404"},"modified":"2009-12-20T05:06:36","modified_gmt":"2009-12-20T12:06:36","slug":"merry-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonandlayne.com\/merry-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">A Jon Post<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>What an amazing God we serve.<br \/>\nIn light of the recent &#8220;extended text&#8221; versions of these blogs I&#8217;m going to keep this one short. I just want to say a few things since this is good ol&#8217; Christmas Week. <a title=\"Nathaniel Dunigan, Director of AIDchild\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aidchild.org\/report_director.asp\" target=\"_blank\">A role model<\/a> of mine often makes lists of things he&#8217;s thankful and it is always pretty moving so I think I&#8217;ll model that today.<\/p>\n<h2><em><strong>Thing&#8217;s I&#8217;m Thankful For This Christmas<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Singing and laughing with 75 orphans and vulnerable children at a children&#8217;s ministry yesterday<\/li>\n<li>Being back in Africa after a year away<\/li>\n<li>Fans (when the air is so hot, moving it around the room REALLY makes a difference)<\/li>\n<li>The way people here in Mozambique smile and say &#8220;Bom Dia&#8221; with such a welcoming voice<\/li>\n<li>When my wife looks at me with her smiling eyes. It melts my heart every time. I could not have chosen a more lovely or loving woman to join with me in living the epic<\/li>\n<li>Finding the family of Christ all over the world<\/li>\n<li>Banana bread<\/li>\n<li>That my wife can make some INCREDIBLE food with really really basic ingredients<\/li>\n<li>The love of Christ that Africans (Angolans, Namibians, Batswana, South Africans, Mozambicans) seem to be so good at showing<\/li>\n<li>My <a title=\"Seriously, these things are AWESOME\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chacousa.com\/us\/en-US\/Home.mvc.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Chaco<\/a> sandals (I&#8217;ve had these for 5 years and there&#8217;s no reason to think they won&#8217;t last another 5)<\/li>\n<li>My family back in Arizona and Texas<\/li>\n<li>Supporters who pray so hard for us<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We have a quick year end letter to all of our supporters. If you have time you can download and read it. For those of you who like to paste Christmas cards up on your mantle we have one here as well<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/shared_files\/12_09\/Jon_and_Layne_Christmas_2009.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Christmas Letter<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/shared_files\/12_09\/Christmas_Card.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Christmas Card<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_411\" style=\"width: 512px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jonandlayne.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Christmas2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-411\" class=\"size-large wp-image-411  \" title=\"Merry Christmas from Mozambique\" src=\"https:\/\/jonandlayne.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Christmas2-1024x737.jpg\" alt=\"Merry Christmas from Mozambique\" width=\"502\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jonandlayne.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Christmas2-1024x737.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jonandlayne.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Christmas2-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-411\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Merry Christmas from Mozambique<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Jon Post What an amazing God we serve. In light of the recent &#8220;extended text&#8221; versions of these blogs I&#8217;m going to keep this one short. I just want to say a few things since this is good ol&#8217; Christmas Week. A role model of mine often makes lists of things he&#8217;s thankful and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonandlayne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonandlayne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonandlayne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonandlayne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonandlayne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/jonandlayne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418,"href":"https:\/\/jonandlayne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions\/418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonandlayne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonandlayne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonandlayne.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}