{"id":286,"date":"2009-06-01T08:59:42","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T16:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/averillnet.com\/?p=286"},"modified":"2009-06-04T21:58:46","modified_gmt":"2009-06-05T05:58:46","slug":"ethiopia-night-at-bonney-lake-community-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/averillnet.com\/?p=286","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia Night at Bonney Lake Community Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 31 was the &#8220;First Annual Ethiopia Night&#8221; at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blcc.org\" target=\"_blank\">Bonney Lake Community Church <\/a>and we were invited to attend.\u00a0 The pastor, Jeff Butler, had traveled to Et<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Tezera learning our boys have a family\" src=\"http:\/\/reaverill.smugmug.com\/photos\/555149135_37zA3-S.jpg\" alt=\"Tezera \" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/>hiopia with the team from Adoption Ministry (our agency).\u00a0 The purpose of the evening was to share what God is doing through the ministry and to encourage support through travel, giving, adoption and\/or prayer.\u00a0 We were totally blessed by our time there and moved to tears more than once.<\/p>\n<p>At one point, Pastor Jeff shared about seeing the orphanage director (Tezera) praising God because she was learning that two orphan boys were receiving a new family.\u00a0 He showed a picture of Tezera that was taken at that moment.\u00a0 The picture and his description of it were very moving and, to top it off, he was describing the moment that Tezera and our boys were learning that they&#8217;re going to be part of our family.\u00a0 It was pointless to try to maintain composure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 31 was the &#8220;First Annual Ethiopia Night&#8221; at Bonney Lake Community Church and we were invited to attend.\u00a0 The &hellip; <span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/averillnet.com\/?p=286\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adoption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/averillnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/averillnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/averillnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/averillnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/averillnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/averillnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292,"href":"https:\/\/averillnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions\/292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/averillnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/averillnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/averillnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}