{"id":8547,"date":"2016-10-05T01:55:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T01:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8547"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:28","slug":"new-rooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8547","title":{"rendered":"NEW ROOMS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hurricane Matthew has passed by with little negative effect on our region of Haiti. We won&#8217;t be resuming school until Thursday. Tomorrow \u00a0(Wednesday) we will gather at Cowman to give thanks that the Lord spared us from this storm and to pray for all those in Haiti and elsewhere who were harmed by Matthew.\u00a0I hope to also use part of the day tomorrow to get my new room in order.\u00a0Here are a few pictures from the move yesterday&#8230;Loading up the truck with desks, shelves and boxes:<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/20161003_093227-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Caleb and Samuel and many others helped out, making quick work of it.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/20161003_085343-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since we were a few days ahead of schedule, the new rooms were still being prepped when we arrived with the first load:<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/20161003_100040-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not too sad to leave this little box of a room behind:<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/20161003_102120-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Everything got dumped in the middle of the new science room:<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/20161003_114204-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, today was all about celebrating our newest teenager. I think Samuel will always remember his 13th birthday.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We certainly appreciate all the friends and family who have offered up prayers over the last few days for us and all of Haiti. Keep the Haitian people in your prayers and we&#8217;ll continue praying that Matthew loses steam on its way to the U.S.!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane Matthew has passed by with little negative effect on our region of Haiti. We won&#8217;t be resuming school until Thursday. Tomorrow \u00a0(Wednesday) we will gather at Cowman to give thanks that the Lord spared us from this storm and to pray for all those in Haiti and elsewhere who were harmed by Matthew.\u00a0I hope [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8556,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8547\/revisions\/8556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}