{"id":1,"date":"2011-06-27T13:31:24","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T13:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aslchristians.org\/?p=1"},"modified":"2020-10-02T23:15:43","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T23:15:43","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aslchristians.org\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"Why ASL Christians?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, many Deaf individuals grew up in churches where there were no interpreters or support systems.&nbsp; Their primary language is not based on hearing loss.&nbsp; It is based on what they see and how they interpreted what they saw.&nbsp; As a result, many will say there are less than 3% of the Deaf community that will call themselves Christians.<\/p>\n<p>ASL Christian founder, Dean DeRusso, wanted to find a better way to connect the Christian churches and bring people closer to good characters of being a Christian.&nbsp; Of course, Christians are not perfect but they learn morals and values through their faith in Christ.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, &nbsp;please pray for ASL Christians and God&#8217;s guidance on making this happen. It&#8217;s His work not ours.<\/p>\n<p>In Christ,<\/p>\n<p>Dean &#8220;Rex&#8221; DeRusso<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, many Deaf individuals grew up in churches where there were no interpreters or support systems.&nbsp; Their primary language is not based on hearing loss.&nbsp; It is based on what they see and how they interpreted what they saw.&nbsp; As a result, many will say there are less than 3% of the Deaf community that will call themselves Christians. ASL Christian founder, Dean DeRusso, wanted to find a better way to connect the Christian churches and bring people closer to good characters of being a Christian.&nbsp; Of course, Christians are not perfect but they learn morals and values through their&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aslchristians.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aslchristians.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aslchristians.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/aslchristians.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88713,"href":"https:\/\/aslchristians.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/88713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aslchristians.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aslchristians.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aslchristians.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aslchristians.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}