{"id":433,"date":"2009-07-16T17:00:06","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T00:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/?p=433"},"modified":"2009-07-16T17:00:06","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T00:00:06","slug":"because-they-cared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/2009\/because-they-cared\/","title":{"rendered":"Because They Cared"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/catalog\/titles\/covers\/becausetheycared.jpg\" alt=\"Because They Cared\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" width=\"191\" \/><\/div>\n<p>When the little town of Graceton, in northern Minnesota, became a fledgling mission&#8217;s focus of attention, George and Dorothy Zook faced a tough decision. Would they be willing to move there? They looked at the challenges, and at the needy children and families of Graceton.<\/p>\n<p>They went.<\/p>\n<p>But going wasn&#8217;t easy. Their new home required attention. A leaky roof, broken windows, and cracked plaster needed repairs. And heating a drafty house with uninsulated walls in sub-zero temperatures would take lots of wood.<\/p>\n<p>They faced lonely days in a community where not everyone appreciated them. Making a living was a struggle too, and they cut corners to pay the bills. But George and Dorothy believed if they did their part, God would give them strength for the trials. <\/p>\n<p>169 pages. Christian Light Publications. Carol Kauffman.<\/p>\n<p>Published in 2009.<\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"green\">For more details as well as the option to buy:<\/font> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/catalog\/titles\/596.shtml\">Because They Cared<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the little town of Graceton, in northern Minnesota, became a fledgling mission&#8217;s focus of attention, George and Dorothy Zook faced a tough decision. Would they be willing to move there? They looked at the challenges, and at the needy children and families of Graceton. They went. But going wasn&#8217;t easy. Their new home required [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-products"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1zSU2-6Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}