{"id":6077,"date":"2013-10-06T00:42:41","date_gmt":"2013-10-06T05:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/?p=6077"},"modified":"2013-10-05T19:54:51","modified_gmt":"2013-10-06T00:54:51","slug":"sponsorship-sunday-week-twenty-two-gernadette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/?p=6077","title":{"rendered":"Sponsorship Sunday &#8211; Week Twenty-Two &#8211; Gernadette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s entry is a bit more fun than most for me. I had the opportunity to watch a video from Grace Village on the web this week and for just a moment I was back in the room where the worship services are held. My bond with the children was strengthened just a bit and I&#8217;ve looked forward to doing this entry for days. I hope you will find it in your heart to sponsor Gernadette and help provide for her needs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/follow?original_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fcommotioninthepews.com%2F&#038;screen_name=joecourtemanche&#038;tw_p=followbutton&#038;variant=2.0\">Please follow me on Twitter<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/josephcourtemancheauthor\">&#8220;Like&#8221; the Facebook author page<\/a>. Don&#8217;t forget to subscribe (the box is on the right side of the page) to be eligible for free e-books and other benefits!<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s child is: <a href=\"http:\/\/sponsor.healinghaiti.org\/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=Gernadette\" target=\"_blank\">Gernadette<\/a>. <div id=\"attachment_6079\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/46Gernadette_Jean.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6079\" src=\"http:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/46Gernadette_Jean-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Gernadette\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6079\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/46Gernadette_Jean-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/46Gernadette_Jean-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/46Gernadette_Jean.jpg 846w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6079\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gernadette<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sponsor.healinghaiti.org\/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=Gernadette\" target=\"_blank\">Gernadette<\/a> has a wonderful sense of humor and loves to make others laugh. <a href=\"http:\/\/sponsor.healinghaiti.org\/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=Gernadette\" target=\"_blank\">Gernadette<\/a> looks forward to mission team visits because team members like to play jump rope with the girls. <a href=\"http:\/\/sponsor.healinghaiti.org\/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=Gernadette\" target=\"_blank\">Gernadette<\/a> enjoys learning new languages, especially French and English. <a href=\"http:\/\/sponsor.healinghaiti.org\/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=Gernadette\" target=\"_blank\">Gernadette<\/a> will tell you that singing is her special gift and her favorite song is Lord My God.<a href=\"http:\/\/sponsor.healinghaiti.org\/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=Gernadette\" target=\"_blank\"> Gernadette<\/a> wants to be a nurse when she grows up so that she can help her family and other people. <a href=\"http:\/\/sponsor.healinghaiti.org\/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=Gernadette\" target=\"_blank\">Gernadette<\/a> lives at Grace Village with her siblings Idemen, Samiel and Gerno. <a href=\"http:\/\/sponsor.healinghaiti.org\/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=Gernadette\" target=\"_blank\">Gernadette&#8217;s<\/a> prayer request is to be able to finish school.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sponsor.healinghaiti.org\/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=Gernadette\" target=\"_blank\">Gernadette<\/a> and her siblings, Idamen, Samiel and Gerno, were abandoned by their parents and now call Grace Village home.<\/p>\n<p>Birth Info<br \/>\nBirthdate: June 25, 1998<br \/>\nPlace of Birth: Tabarre, Haiti<\/p>\n<p>It is my hope that one of you will find your heart touched by this child and take up a bit of Christ&#8217;s work by sponsoring them for an extended period. My wife and I are sponsoring a pair of sisters and we took on the commitment based on having to only gave up a fast-food dinner each day to change the life of a child. God came through with a very lucrative bit of voice over work for me that covered the bill that same day, but it really is as easy as skipping a value meal. Healing Haiti will do the right things for these children and I have full confidence in their work. I am not affiliated with them, they don&#8217;t endorse this blog, nothing like that at all. I just love kids (can&#8217;t be Santa and not love children) and know that Grace Village is the difference between life and death for many of these children. Please open your heart and prayerfully reflect on the opportunity God&#8217;s giving us to sponsor these children. Some of them have come out of slavery and have some of the toughest lives you could imagine prior to Grace Village. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sponsor.healinghaiti.org\/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=Gernadette\" target=\"_blank\">Just click the link and it will take you directly to the page where you can sponsor this week&#8217;s child.<\/a>  And if God is particularly good and that child is sponsored when you get there, please grab another smiling face and change their life instead. My goal is to put Sponsorship Sunday out of business as quickly as possible and take that day off each week.  Thank you. God bless you for your generosity. <a href=\"http:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/?attachment_id=3373\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3373\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/healinghaitilogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"healinghaitilogo\" width=\"225\" height=\"173\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3373\" \/><\/a> <\/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>This week&#8217;s entry is a bit more fun than most for me. I had the opportunity to watch a video from Grace Village on the web this week and for just a moment I was back in the room where <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/?p=6077\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2186,1253,1201,1866,1867],"tags":[86,252,167,2493,1606,1377,1203,162,113,1949,4513,1607,1989],"class_list":["post-6077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adoption","category-love-2","category-mission-to-haiti","category-orphans","category-sponsorship-sunday","tag-children","tag-christ","tag-commotion-in-the-pews","tag-gernadette","tag-grace-village","tag-haiti","tag-healing-haiti","tag-joseph-courtemanche","tag-love","tag-orphanage","tag-orphans","tag-sponsorship","tag-sponsorship-sunday-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6080,"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6077\/revisions\/6080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}