{"id":30893,"date":"2024-08-25T16:54:52","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T21:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fellowshipar.com\/?p=30893"},"modified":"2024-10-28T10:52:59","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T15:52:59","slug":"it-just-felt-like-a-godstory-from-the-beginning-the-leisenring-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fellowshipar.com\/it-just-felt-like-a-godstory-from-the-beginning-the-leisenring-family\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It Just Felt Like a GodStory From the Beginning&#8221; | The Leisenring Family","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>Xavier is a hearing child fluent in American Sign Language (ASL), because he grew up in a Deaf household.<\/p>\n<p>He had to be moved under temporary guardianship with the Jordan family, who are members of Fellowship West Little Rock. Jenni Jordan \u2014 who just so happens to know sign language, since her best friend growing up was Deaf \u2014 met with Xavier&#8217;s teacher for parent-teacher conferences. His teacher had begun to learn ASL to try to help him in class, since he was behind. The Jordans knew God had called them to be the middle family for Xavier while they searched for his forever home, and during the course of the parent-teacher conference, it became clear that his forever home was staring Jenni in the face!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Click to hear the rest of Xavier&#8217;s story!<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_code _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding:0 0 55% 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1010263794?h=8439da42c5&#038;badge=0&#038;autopause=0&#038;player_id=0&#038;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" title=\"Leisenring_Adoption_God Story\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script>[\/et_pb_code][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xavier is a hearing child fluent in American Sign Language (ASL), because he grew up in a Deaf household. He had to be moved under temporary guardianship with the Jordan family, who are members of Fellowship West Little Rock. Jenni Jordan \u2014 who just so happens to know sign language, since her best friend growing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":28,"featured_media":30897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video"],"acf":[],"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"link","format":"url"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fellowshipar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fellowshipar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fellowshipar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fellowshipar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fellowshipar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fellowshipar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fellowshipar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fellowshipar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fellowshipar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fellowshipar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}