{"id":427,"date":"2007-07-06T20:37:52","date_gmt":"2007-07-07T01:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=427"},"modified":"2007-07-06T20:37:52","modified_gmt":"2007-07-07T01:37:52","slug":"Up North Adventure - Part 2: Mercy Ships reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=427","title":{"rendered":"Up North Adventure &#8211; Part 2: Mercy Ships reunion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<div align=\"left\">This day was such a treat for me.&nbsp; We met 2 wonderful women who I met during my time with Mercy Ships.&nbsp; All 3 of us started with Mercy Ships in the fall of 1999, spent some time with Mercy Ships as young single women, and two of us met our husbands with Mercy Ships.&nbsp; All of us got married within a year of each other (2003).&nbsp; Amy and her husband, Brian, and Shelly and her husband, Gaston, all went back to serve on board the ship, Anastasis.&nbsp; All three of us have kids now, and it was such a treat to be back together, celebrating what God has done in our lives since we last saw each other.&nbsp; I really feel as if God has knit our hearts together in a special way through our service with Mercy Ships.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><em>Amy, Josiah and I, Analise and Brian,Gaston and Shelly.&nbsp; <br \/>(The other little ones were napping&#8230;mine desperately needed to be, too.&nbsp; Can you tell?)<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/07-july\/minnfriends.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Josiah and Caleb playing in the fun sandbox.&nbsp; <\/em><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/07-july\/sandtire6\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/07-july\/chalk-buddies\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/07-july\/chalk-group1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/07-july\/chalk-group2\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Analise and Caleb cruising on the little bike.&nbsp; <\/em><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/07-july\/cruisin-duo\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/07-july\/sandtire1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/07-july\/sandtire2\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/07-july\/sandtire3\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/07-july\/sandtire4\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/07-july\/sandtire5\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Gaston and Shelly&#8217;s new baby boy, Nathaniel.&nbsp; What a cutie he was!&nbsp; <\/em><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/07-july\/fatherson\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This day was such a treat for me.&nbsp; We met 2 wonderful women who I met during my time with Mercy Ships.&nbsp; All 3 of us started with Mercy Ships in the fall of 1999, spent some time with Mercy Ships as young single women, and two of us met our husbands with Mercy Ships.&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkzLf-6T","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}