{"id":187,"date":"2009-12-09T15:16:10","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T22:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/stcblog\/?p=187"},"modified":"2009-12-09T15:16:10","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T22:16:10","slug":"family-news-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/?p=187","title":{"rendered":"Family News in December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a quick round the family update:<br \/>\nSteve: I&#8217;m doing lots of work with the Sending Team, dealing with issues of how we ensure development for the people as we send them.\u00a0 Our team has been covering for each other as we take turns visiting our supporters.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a challenging environment for developing new support.\u00a0 I&#8217;m playing basketball and hitting the gym for fitness.<br \/>\nRochelle: She&#8217;s running our car up and down Alafaya and Avalon Park.\u00a0 2 roundtrips each for Josh to elementary school\u00a0and Melissa&#8217;s one choir class each day, plus the shopping and doctors &#8211; so much time in the car!\u00a0 She&#8217;s trying to do a little tennis with friends when she can.\u00a0 Women&#8217;s bible study and Starting Point adult Sunday class and pre-school sunday school class are outlets for ministry.<br \/>\nAndy: Finishing up fall quarter at Cal Poly Pomona in his Physics degree.\u00a0 Still a year to go after this one.\u00a0 He&#8217;s enjoying Japanese Fellowship, which he is leading this year, and activities with his Japanese church.<br \/>\nBen: Finishing up fall semester at Valencia Community College.\u00a0 Next year he&#8217;ll be in University of Central Florida on a sports training degree.\u00a0 Enjoys the gym, and still working for Panera Bread.\u00a0 The orthodontia to prepare for jaw surgery is almost complete, so we will be able to schedule the surgery this spring sometime.<br \/>\nMelissa: Florida Virtual School, doing the online junior year of high school, and that&#8217;s working okay for her so far.\u00a0 She&#8217;s getting work on her back for scoliosis (back curvature) and neck pain.\u00a0 She enjoys friends and bible study and sushi parties!<br \/>\nJoshua: Our sports loving little guy is into soccer, basketball and baseball, plus riding his bike around.\u00a0 He&#8217;d do minigolf and bowling more if they didn&#8217;t cost so.\u00a0 When he does computer games he likes the sports ones most.\u00a0 We love his sincere questions about God and the stories of the Bible.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll have Andy out with us for 3 weeks over Christmas &#8211; so excited about that and all the kids looking forward to it.\u00a0 Rochelle&#8217;s mom will also come down for a week and a half before she heads to Rochelle&#8217;s sisters place for the rest of the holidays.\u00a0 So we are staying local this time.\u00a0 Decorate the palm tree for Christmas!\u00a0 Shorts and flip flops it&#8217;s 85 degrees today while the blizzard storms the rest of the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a quick round the family update: Steve: I&#8217;m doing lots of work with the Sending Team, dealing with issues of how we ensure development for the people as we send them.\u00a0 Our team has been covering for each other<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-from-the-clarks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}