{"id":17,"date":"2010-07-26T14:25:01","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T18:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ken-west\/?p=17"},"modified":"2010-07-26T19:34:45","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T23:34:45","slug":"family-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ken-west\/2010\/07\/26\/family-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24\" style=\"width: 108px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ken-west\/files\/2010\/07\/Naia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ken-west\/files\/2010\/07\/Naia-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Naia Ruth Pierce\" width=\"108\" height=\"81\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Naia Ruth Pierce<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy\u2026Let thy mercy, O LORD, be upon us, according as we hope in thee.\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2013 Psalm 33:18 &amp; 22<\/p>\n<p>Much has happened in our family during the past few weeks so we wanted to give a brief family update.\u00a0 There have been many opportunities in the past couple of weeks for each of us to put our hope in the Lord and His tender mercies\u2026<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>July 1-10, Ken &amp; Cindy stayed with Eliana while our daughter, Liz, and husband, Ed, went on a mission trip to Peru.\u00a0 Although only 15 months old, she was a very sweet and courageous girl.\u00a0 Not knowing how Eliana would respond since this was the first lengthy time with Dad and Mom away, we had prayed much for the Lord to give a peaceful time.\u00a0 He did that and the entire ten days went very well.\u00a0 Also, Ed &amp; Liz experienced the Lord\u2019s strength and grace in their ministry with orphans and with a church in Peru, the country where Ed grew up as an MK.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>While it was a delight to spend that time with Eliana, it was also difficult to be away from our daughter, Anna, and her family who were having several simultaneous difficulties.<\/li>\n<li>July 1<sup>st<\/sup>, we learned that, due to some complications, Anna may have to have a C-section delivery earlier than previously anticipated, otherwise the baby\u2019s life could be endangered.\u00a0 We prayed for Andy and Anna to have peace and rest in this situation and for the Lord to protect their unborn daughter.<\/li>\n<li>July 6<sup>th<\/sup>, while Anna was getting the final tests in preparation for the C-section, her son, Benjamin, was taken to the Dr. then to the hospital because of critical breathing difficulties.\u00a0 At first suspecting asthma, then possibly pneumonia, little Benjamin was admitted to the hospital and found to have an upper respiratory infection.<\/li>\n<li>July 7<sup>th<\/sup>, Benjamin was released from the hospital while his brother, Aiden, developed similar symptoms.\u00a0 Both were treated at home for several days with the same breathing treatments using a nebulizer.<\/li>\n<li>July 8<sup>th<\/sup>, Anna had a safe C-section delivering a beautiful baby girl who they named Naia Ruth Pierce.\u00a0 Both Mom and baby are home and doing well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We continue to count on your prayers for our ministry of mobilizing US believers to reach out to those who have never heard the Gospel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much has happened in our family during the past few weeks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-family","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ken-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ken-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ken-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ken-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ken-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ken-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ken-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ken-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ken-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}