{"id":970,"date":"2011-01-26T20:16:32","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T00:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/?p=970"},"modified":"2011-01-26T20:20:40","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T00:20:40","slug":"find-us-faithful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/2011\/01\/26\/find-us-faithful\/","title":{"rendered":"Find us faithful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-972\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/files\/2011\/01\/Grandpa-Brendle.jpg\" alt=\"Grandpa Brendle\" width=\"273\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/files\/2011\/01\/Grandpa-Brendle.jpg 273w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/files\/2011\/01\/Grandpa-Brendle-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/files\/2011\/01\/Grandpa-Brendle-87x110.jpg 87w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/files\/2011\/01\/Grandpa-Brendle-197x250.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 273px) 100vw, 273px\" \/>Our son, Tom, took a phone call today at his work with NTM&#8217;s Associate Program.\u00a0 He identified himself when he answered the phone, and the caller went on to explain why she had called.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As the conversation progressed, she asked, &#8220;So you said your name was Tom Brendle.\u00a0 By any chance, was your father a pastor in a little\u00a0town in Virginia?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tom replied, &#8220;Not my dad. But my grandfather, Raymond Brendle, pastored a church in Berryville.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0caller exclaimed, &#8220;That&#8217;s who led us to the Lord!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As they talked, she said that she remembered Dave and his brother and sister as teenagers.\u00a0 Connections&#8230;. They are all around us.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Grandpa Brendle.\u00a0 You&#8217;ve been in glory for nearly 16 years, and today we were again reminded that you were\u00a0faithful!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our son, Tom, took a phone call today at his work with NTM&#8217;s Associate Program.\u00a0 He identified himself when he answered the phone, and the caller went on to explain why she had called.\u00a0\u00a0 As the conversation progressed, she asked, &#8220;So you said your name was Tom Brendle.\u00a0 By any chance, was your father a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[3,1724],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-family","category-tom-and-danielle","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}