{"id":207,"date":"2014-04-16T10:45:17","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T08:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/michael-richardson\/?p=207"},"modified":"2014-05-21T16:35:07","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T14:35:07","slug":"keeping-our-kids-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/michael-richardson\/2014\/04\/16\/keeping-our-kids-safe\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping our Kids Safe"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Child abuse \u2013 it\u2019s right up at the top of our list of \u201cworst sins.\u201d Despite the stigma abusers exist in just about every place that children are to be found. Mission settings have their own set of challenges and our leadership has taken a proactive stance. A few weeks ago a colleague and I flew to Kenya to attend a workshop of likeminded organizations dedicated to the protection of these \u201clittle ones\u201d that are so precious to Jesus. We came away encouraged that excellent policies and training can greatly reduce our vulnerability. We also have a network of people to partner with if a report of abuse ever surfaces. I\u2019m still left sobered by the realization of how many precious little ones have been and are being taken advantage of. I pray that they find healing. (Picture) This sunset picture over a Kenyan tea plantation shows that we don\u2019t always work in the worst places on earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Child abuse \u2013 it\u2019s right up at the top of our list of \u201cworst sins.\u201d Despite the stigma abusers exist in just about every place that children are to be found. Mission settings have their own set of challenges and our leadership has taken a proactive stance. A few weeks ago a colleague and I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"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":[3719],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-207","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news-article","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/michael-richardson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/michael-richardson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/michael-richardson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/michael-richardson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/michael-richardson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/michael-richardson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/michael-richardson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/michael-richardson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/michael-richardson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}