{"id":276,"date":"2009-06-07T10:54:34","date_gmt":"2009-06-07T14:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gergltd.com\/zambia\/?page_id=276"},"modified":"2009-06-17T10:20:07","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T15:20:07","slug":"may-31-church-in-mansa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gergltd.com\/zambia\/mansa\/may-31-church-in-mansa\/","title":{"rendered":"May 31 – Church in Mansa"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Inside

Inside the church<\/p><\/div>\n

Woke up at 8am. Ate CoCo puffs for breakfast. A truck picked us up to give us a ride to church. Church started at 9am. It started with a Bible study which was one hour long. Following, service started and was an hour and a half long. After church, everyone goes outside and forms a line. Then, each person walks down the line and shakes hands with everyone.<\/p>\n

\"Anna-Maria's

Anna-Maria's Restaurant<\/p><\/div>\n

After church, we mingled with some of the other members and then hopped a ride into town. We stopped at ShopRite, the local grocery store. We bought lunch here and then ate it across the street. I also bought my bus ticket to Lusaka for the start of my journey back to the US. The ticket was 110 pin <\/em>(K 110,000).\u00a0 To make the denominations of Kwacha easier to handle, people call K1,000 one pin<\/em>. We continued to walk around Mansa and stopped at a restaurant, Anna-Marie’s Paradise, where we got something to drink and relaxed in the shade and read.<\/p>\n

Church service started again at 4pm.\u00a0 Most people go to church twice a day on Sunday.\u00a0 The serviced lasted until 6pm.\u00a0 We then hitched a ride home.<\/p>\n

\"Power

Power outage<\/p><\/div>\n

Once we got home, we quickly realized that the power was out.\u00a0 I dug my headlamp out and Ruth lit candles.\u00a0 John went outside and cooked some dinner for us using his kerosene burner. We then watched a movie on Ruth’s laptop, The African Queen, and then went to bed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Woke up at 8am. Ate CoCo puffs for breakfast. A truck picked us up to give us a ride to church. Church started at 9am. It started with a Bible study which was one hour long. Following, service started and was an hour and a half long. After church, everyone goes outside and forms a … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":71,"menu_order":531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gergltd.com\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gergltd.com\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gergltd.com\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gergltd.com\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gergltd.com\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.gergltd.com\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279,"href":"https:\/\/www.gergltd.com\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/276\/revisions\/279"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gergltd.com\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gergltd.com\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}