{"id":2084,"date":"2025-08-12T16:31:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T16:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/?p=2084"},"modified":"2025-08-12T16:31:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T16:31:28","slug":"germany-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/germany-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2084\" class=\"elementor elementor-2084\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2cdd4e87 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2cdd4e87\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6c8672f7\" data-id=\"6c8672f7\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-46c2b7dd elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"46c2b7dd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>My eldest daughter, Audrey, came on her first trip to the Dominican Republic at the age of 7. Over the years, she&#8217;s visited many times. Most recently, she returned this summer as a senior in college. As she leveraged her forthcoming degree in Communications and Spanish, accompanying me on various meetings and site visits, I was reminded again and again of her growth and the ministry&#8217;s growth over the years.<\/p><p>One moment in particular captured God&#8217;s grace in her life and the development of EA over time. As I watched Audrey interact with a visiting Nicaraguan pastor being trained that week to return to his country and facilitate our Church Network Development Program, I was reminded of the Apostle Paul&#8217;s statement, &#8220;\u2026neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but God who causes the growth.&#8221; (1 Cor. 3:6-7)<\/p><p>Over the week, I reflected on God&#8217;s grace in Audrey&#8217;s maturation from that little girl to a young godly woman, and EA&#8217;s development to a ministry serving Christ&#8217;s Church in numerous countries, in both reach and depth that would have been unthinkable 13 years ago.<\/p><p>Thank you for your continued financial partnership.<\/p><p>Please keep in your prayers Pastor William, having returned to his country and implementing his training below.<\/p><p>Also, please pray for Audrey (and now our freshman Molly), as they return to Geneva College this week\u2026and for our Emma, left behind with mom and dad.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-49ff529 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"49ff529\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-cd4fa9c\" data-id=\"cd4fa9c\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1b564aa elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"1b564aa\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/audrey4.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-2086\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/audrey4.png 1200w, https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/audrey4-300x75.png 300w, https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/audrey4-1024x256.png 1024w, https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/audrey4-768x192.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-56789ce elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"56789ce\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-f0a5851\" data-id=\"f0a5851\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ce9481f elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"ce9481f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/audrey5.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-2085\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/audrey5.png 1200w, https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/audrey5-300x75.png 300w, https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/audrey5-1024x256.png 1024w, https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/audrey5-768x192.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My eldest daughter, Audrey, came on her first trip to the Dominican Republic at the age of 7. Over the years, she&#8217;s visited many times. Most recently, she returned this summer as a senior in college. As she leveraged her forthcoming degree in Communications and Spanish, accompanying me on various meetings and site visits, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2087,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ministry"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/audrey3-600x300.png","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/audrey3-600x300.png","author_info":{"display_name":"Kent Husted","author_link":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/author\/khusted\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}