{"id":822,"date":"2012-04-27T14:07:27","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T18:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stearnsinafrica.com\/?p=822"},"modified":"2012-04-28T15:37:30","modified_gmt":"2012-04-28T19:37:30","slug":"samson-soko-stearns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stearnsinafrica.com\/?p=822","title":{"rendered":"Samson Soko Stearns!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stearnsinafrica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Samson-Soko-Stearns.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-823 alignleft\" title=\"Samson Soko Stearns\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stearnsinafrica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Samson-Soko-Stearns-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>It is with unimaginable joy, grateful hearts and praise for our God that I introduce to you our Son, Samson Soko Stearns!\u00a0 Today, April 27, 2012 God moved swiftly to bring the finalization of the Zambian adoption to completion.\u00a0 We now turn our efforts to the completion of Samson\u2019s adoption with the USA through the Embassy in Lusaka.\u00a0 On behalf of Shelley and I and Samson\u2019s brother and sisters we thank all of you for your prayers before the Father and your support of us as we have been pursuing adoption in Zambia.\u00a0 God has brought glory to His name this day and He has shown His goodness to us all!<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cBehold children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.\u00a0 Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of ones youth.\u00a0 Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them!\u201d\u00a0 Psalm 127: 3-5<\/em><\/p>\n<p>-Dave &amp; all of the Stearns family<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is with unimaginable joy, grateful hearts and praise for our God that I introduce to you our Son, Samson Soko Stearns!\u00a0 Today, April 27, 2012 God moved swiftly to bring the finalization of the Zambian adoption to completion.\u00a0 We &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stearnsinafrica.com\/?p=822\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-samson"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stearnsinafrica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stearnsinafrica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stearnsinafrica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stearnsinafrica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stearnsinafrica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.stearnsinafrica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":828,"href":"http:\/\/www.stearnsinafrica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions\/828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stearnsinafrica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stearnsinafrica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stearnsinafrica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}