{"id":7,"date":"2011-07-09T19:35:53","date_gmt":"2011-07-09T19:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aslchristians.org\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2011-07-11T12:17:38","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T12:17:38","slug":"mission-statement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aslchristians.org\/?page_id=7","title":{"rendered":"Mission Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ASL Christians<\/strong> is an America\u00a0Sign Language (ASL)\u00a0group of God&#8217;s servants that come together through the Grace and Truth of Jesus Christ by creating a sign language friendly environment to reveal His power that will be shown through them. (Exodus 4:11;\u00a0John 9:1-3; John 1:17.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scriptures supporting our mission statement:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Exodus 4:11<\/strong> New Century Version\u00a0(NCV)\u00a0<sup id=\"en-NCV-25959\">11<\/sup> Then the Lord said to him, &#8220;Who made a person&#8217;s mouth? And who makes someone deaf or not able to speak? Or who gives a person sight or blindness? It is I, the Lord.<\/p>\n<p><strong>John 9:1-3 (NCV):<\/strong> <sup id=\"en-NCV-25959\">1<\/sup> As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man who had been born blind. <sup id=\"en-NCV-25959\">2<\/sup> His followers asked him, &#8220;Teacher, whose sin caused this man to be born blind\u2014his own sin or his parents&#8217; sin?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><sup id=\"en-NCV-25959\">3<\/sup> Jesus answered, &#8220;It is not this man&#8217;s sin or his parents&#8217; sin that made him blind. This man was born blind so that God&#8217;s power could be shown in him.<\/p>\n<p><strong>John 1:17\u00a0(NCV): <\/strong><sup id=\"en-NCV-25959\">17<\/sup>\u00a0The law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASL Christians is an America\u00a0Sign Language (ASL)\u00a0group of God&#8217;s servants that come together through the Grace and Truth of Jesus Christ by creating a sign language friendly environment to reveal His power that will be shown through them. (Exodus 4:11;\u00a0John 9:1-3; John 1:17.) Scriptures supporting our mission statement: Exodus 4:11 New Century Version\u00a0(NCV)\u00a011 Then the Lord said to him, &#8220;Who made a person&#8217;s mouth? And who makes someone deaf or not able to speak? Or who gives a person sight or blindness? It is I, the Lord. John 9:1-3 (NCV): 1 As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6,"parent":5,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aslchristians.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aslchristians.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aslchristians.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aslchristians.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aslchristians.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/aslchristians.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102,"href":"https:\/\/aslchristians.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/102"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aslchristians.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aslchristians.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aslchristians.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}