{"id":5150,"date":"2010-03-03T07:00:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T13:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=5150"},"modified":"2010-03-01T14:53:35","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T20:53:35","slug":"creating-a-culture-of-adoption-in-the-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/creating-a-culture-of-adoption-in-the-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating a culture of adoption in the church"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- vimeo error: not a vimeo video -->\n<p><strong>&#8220;We need the church.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In order for the church to be effective to this ministry and this calling&#8230; They&#8217;re going to have to be a healing culture. They&#8217;re going to have to be a forgiving culture. They&#8217;re going to have to a faith that is renewed daily.&#8221;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nDr. Karen Purvis spoke at the <a href=\"http:\/\/tapestry.irvingbible.org\/\">2009 Tapestry Conference<\/a> last year. It was easily the highlight of the day.<\/p>\n<p>She also co-wrote the book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0071475001?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=malesurvival&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0071475001\">The Connected Child<\/a> &#8212; a book I <em>highly<\/em> recommend for folks preparing to begin the foster, adoption process.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=malesurvival&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;md=10FE9736YVPPT7A0FBG2&#038;asins=0071475001\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(HT <a href=\"http:\/\/buildingtheblocks.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/im-still-packing.html\">Building the Blocks<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We need the church.&#8221; &#8220;In order for the church to be effective to this ministry and this calling&#8230; They&#8217;re going to have to be a healing culture. They&#8217;re going to have to be a forgiving culture. They&#8217;re going to have to a faith that is renewed daily.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2771],"tags":[2023,1064,219,1337,2772,498],"class_list":["post-5150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adoption-take-action","tag-adoption","tag-care","tag-church","tag-culture","tag-foster-care","tag-love"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-1l4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}