{"id":977,"date":"2024-03-09T09:23:08","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T15:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianorphanfund.com\/?p=977"},"modified":"2024-12-23T18:51:58","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T00:51:58","slug":"bendorf-family-update-from-south-dakota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianorphanfund.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/09\/bendorf-family-update-from-south-dakota\/","title":{"rendered":"Bendorf  family update from South Dakota"},"content":{"rendered":"\nWe wanted to reach out with an update on our Adoption Journey! We are excited to announce that we have adopted two amazing children from Bulgaria &#8211; Skylar and Elizabeth. We returned back to the USA as a family of 5 in mid-February and have been working on connection, healing and English \ud83d\ude42 The girls are very active, love social settings (church, school, basketball games) and are always eager to explore new places and things. \n\nWe want to say a huge &#8220;THANK YOU&#8221; for partnering with us on this amazing journey! It has been quite the process, and we know it truly takes a village to raise a child. As we continue to grow as a family of 5, we are so blessed to have such an amazing village. \n\nThank you, and we thank God for you!\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/christianorphanfund.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"594\" src=\"https:\/\/christianorphanfund.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image.jpeg\" alt=\"image0.jpeg\" class=\"wp-image-982\" style=\"width:356px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christianorphanfund.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/christianorphanfund.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-300x278.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/christianorphanfund.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-510x473.jpeg 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We wanted to reach out with an update on our Adoption Journey! We are excited to announce that we have adopted two amazing children from Bulgaria &#8211; Skylar and Elizabeth. We returned back to the USA as a family of 5 in mid-February and have been working on connection, healing and English \ud83d\ude42 The girls [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":982,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-updates"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/christianorphanfund.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianorphanfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianorphanfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianorphanfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianorphanfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianorphanfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=977"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/christianorphanfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":984,"href":"https:\/\/christianorphanfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions\/984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianorphanfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianorphanfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianorphanfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianorphanfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}