{"id":378,"date":"2011-10-15T19:52:10","date_gmt":"2011-10-15T23:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-ketcham\/?p=378"},"modified":"2011-10-15T19:52:10","modified_gmt":"2011-10-15T23:52:10","slug":"adoption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/2011\/10\/15\/adoption\/","title":{"rendered":"Adoption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Adoption is something that has ALWAYS been dear to our hearts.\u00a0 When my (Angela) \u00a0mom died on my16th birthday, it really opened my eyes to the need of soooooooooooo many kids around the world.\u00a0 Needless to say, when we started dating seriously, this was one issue that we discussed.\u00a0 Thankfully, we were both in agreement that <em>IF<\/em> someday we could adopt, we would like to.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So here we are after 3 years of dating &amp; 11 1\/2 years of marriage&#8230;.and we are in the process of adopting.\u00a0 We don&#8217;t yet know if we&#8217;ll be approved, we don&#8217;t know who will (possibly) join our family, we don&#8217;t know much really.\u00a0 But we do know that we still feel very strongly about pursuing this.\u00a0 So we are in the process of adopting.\u00a0\u00a0 Please pray that we&#8217;ll know what the Lord has for us&#8230;.1 child, no (more) children, siblings, or?????\u00a0 And when there is more to &#8216;know&#8217;, we&#8217;ll make sure to give an update.<\/p>\n<p>Before I had a chance to &#8216;publish&#8217; this, we were asked to consider adopting three siblings.\u00a0 So we are in the process of finding out more info about them &amp; getting to know them (we are allowed to visit them and have them- eventually- visit us at our home) before we make any decisions.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><em>PLEASE PRAY THAT WE&#8217;LL HAVE WISDOM &amp; PEACE WITH OUR DECISIONS.<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll let you know what we decide as soon as we know.\u00a0 Thank you for your support!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Adoption is something that has ALWAYS been dear to our hearts.\u00a0 When my (Angela) \u00a0mom died on my16th birthday, it really opened my eyes to the need of soooooooooooo many kids around the world.\u00a0 Needless to say, when we started dating seriously, this was one issue that we discussed.\u00a0 Thankfully, we were both in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":464,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/464"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}