{"id":4596,"date":"2018-08-23T19:59:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T00:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/?p=4596"},"modified":"2018-08-23T20:02:36","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T01:02:36","slug":"watch-them-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/watch-them-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Them  Grow!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4597 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_9143-1-e1535072234535-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_9143-1-e1535072234535-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_9143-1-e1535072234535-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Sunday was extra special for our family. For weeks now, Abbie has been praying for her friend (our neighbor&#8217;s little girl) to come to church!&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em> Sometimes life gets busy and our children&#8217;s desires take a back seat to everything else that is happening. But Abigail kept praying and asking her friend to come to church.&nbsp; One day she said, &#8220;Mom, my friend wants to come with us on Sunday!&#8221; So that afternoon Abbie and I talked to her friend&#8217;s&nbsp;parents. The mother grinned, &#8220;Yes, your daughter has been asking me for weeks if my kids can come.&#8221;&nbsp; My heart was so full! I&#8217;m so thankful for my little girl and her desire to bring people to church. I pray she never loses that desire! Sunday came and we were so blessed to have <em>Abbie&#8217;s friend and her sister<\/em> come to our services!<em><strong>&nbsp; I thank the Lord for answering my baby&#8217;s prayers and growing her faith!&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday was extra special for our family. For weeks now, Abbie has been praying for her friend (our neighbor&#8217;s little girl) to come to church!&nbsp; Sometimes life gets busy and our children&#8217;s desires take a back seat to everything else that is happening. But Abigail kept praying and asking her friend to come to church.&nbsp; One day she said, &#8220;Mom, &hellip; <a class=\"meta-nav\" href=\"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/watch-them-grow\/\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4596"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4596"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4601,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4596\/revisions\/4601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}