{"id":3055,"date":"2011-03-07T13:30:12","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T18:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=3055"},"modified":"2011-03-07T13:30:12","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T18:30:12","slug":"prayers-for-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=3055","title":{"rendered":"Prayers for Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3056\" href=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?attachment_id=3056\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3056\" title=\"ethiopia\" src=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ethiopia-300x295.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ethiopia-300x295.gif 300w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ethiopia.gif 509w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Will you commit a few minutes this week to pray for the orphans in Ethiopia? \u00a0There was a lot of information that came out this past weekend indicating that the Ethiopian government is getting ready to slam the brakes on regarding international adoptions. \u00a0They are talking about cutting back as much as 90%. \u00a0I read somewhere that they normally process 50-60 adoptions per day in Ethiopia and that they are thinking of cutting back to 3-5 adoptions a day. \u00a0Our heart is heavy because we realize this means a delay in our son coming to live with us. \u00a0Unfortunately, this is a result of greed and corruption that can take place in international adoptions. \u00a0Sin has a consequence. \u00a0Please take a few minutes this week to pray for the thousands of boys and girls that are in need of loving homes that can provide for their needs. \u00a0We know that God will care for them!<\/p>\n<p><strong>James 1:27<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will you commit a few minutes this week to pray for the orphans in Ethiopia? \u00a0There was a lot of information that came out this past weekend indicating that the Ethiopian government is getting ready to slam the brakes on regarding international adoptions. \u00a0They are talking about cutting back as much as 90%. \u00a0I read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}