{"id":1726,"date":"2018-12-21T18:04:09","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T01:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/?p=1726"},"modified":"2025-12-23T13:02:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:02:37","slug":"family-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/2018\/12\/21\/family-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Family updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Christmastime, family is one of the things on our minds, so I thought I&#8217;d share some updates on our team:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1727\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1727\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1727\" src=\"http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_2587-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_2587-copy.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_2587-copy-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_2587-copy-768x482.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1727\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew, Holly, Alyssa, Adam, Loki and Eric<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Holly<\/strong> is showing some modest signs of improvement in her health and energy level, but still in need of your prayers as she continues her extremely restrictive diet. She is enjoying a renewed focus on prayer and is a vital part of the work Eric does globally.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Adam<\/strong> is continuing his education in global development at Trinity Western University, and working in construction to help pay school bills.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Andrew<\/strong> is finishing his high school requirements while taking courses at the local community college and searching for a job with an eye toward getting a car.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Alyssa<\/strong> is diligently continuing her online academy in her freshman year of high school while blessing many with her creative artistic gifts. Please pray for her as she does not seem to be improving in health or energy.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Eric<\/strong> \u2013 You hear enough about me in other blogs, but I\u2019m so thankful for my family and for YOU as we continue in partnership together in equipping pastors globally to study and preach God\u2019s Word. To read about my training last week in Kenya, <a href=\"http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/2018\/12\/20\/melting-with-pastors-in-malindi-kenya\/\">CLICK HERE<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1728\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1728\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1728\" src=\"http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_2559-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"944\" srcset=\"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_2559-copy.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_2559-copy-300x277.jpg 300w, https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_2559-copy-768x708.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1728\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew, Alyssa and Adam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A blessed Christmas to you as we celebrate the God who came near.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Christmastime, family is one of the things on our minds, so I thought I&#8217;d share some updates on our team: Holly is showing some modest signs of improvement in her health and energy level, but still in need of your prayers as she continues her extremely restrictive diet. She is enjoying a renewed focus &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/2018\/12\/21\/family-updates\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Family updates<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1729,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726\/revisions\/1729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}