{"id":2,"date":"2012-01-20T21:52:03","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T21:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/vanilla-rose\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-06-21T07:37:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T12:37:49","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-carlton\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1468\" height=\"920\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-carlton\/files\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-17-at-4.01.42\u202fPM-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-carlton\/files\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-17-at-4.01.42\u202fPM-1.png 1468w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-carlton\/files\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-17-at-4.01.42\u202fPM-1-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-carlton\/files\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-17-at-4.01.42\u202fPM-1-600x376.png 600w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-carlton\/files\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-17-at-4.01.42\u202fPM-1-768x481.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-carlton\/files\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-17-at-4.01.42\u202fPM-1-125x78.png 125w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-carlton\/files\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-17-at-4.01.42\u202fPM-1-250x157.png 250w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-carlton\/files\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-17-at-4.01.42\u202fPM-1-404x253.png 404w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1468px) 100vw, 1468px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are a family of four dedicated to reaching the world with the gospel of Jesus Christ! After serving on a church planting team in Papua New Guinea for several years, the Lord moved us to Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Mexico is home to over 16.9 million indigenous people who speak over 364 variations of its 68 recognized indigenous languages! Our passion is to see thriving churches among the least-reached people groups in Mexico and beyond!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">Specifically in Mexico, we are involved in teaching and coaching. We teach in our national training program for Latin Americans and coach expats studying the Spanish language and Mexican culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">We enjoy new adventures, traveling, good movies, good music &amp; good food. <strong>Tom<\/strong> enjoys reading and wood burning in his free time, while\u00a0<strong>Beth <\/strong>enjoys anything creative, whether it be sewing, painting, or working with flowers. We have two children: our son Jude, who loves theatre and animation, &amp; our daughter Iris, a thrill seeker who also does aerial silks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are a family of four dedicated to reaching the world with the gospel of Jesus Christ! After serving on a church planting team in Papua New Guinea for several years, the Lord moved us to Mexico. Mexico is home to over 16.9 million indigenous people who speak over 364 variations of its 68 recognized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1124,"featured_media":7980,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","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":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-carlton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-carlton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-carlton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-carlton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1124"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-carlton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-carlton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10449,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-carlton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/10449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-carlton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-carlton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}