{"id":868,"date":"2012-05-17T10:47:10","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T07:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/?p=868"},"modified":"2012-05-17T10:55:05","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T07:55:05","slug":"abortion-prevention-counselor-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/abortion-prevention-counselor-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion Prevention Counselor Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abortion was extremely common in Soviet times. \u00a0Today the rate is somewhat lower than it was 20 years ago, however, Ukraine, Moldova and Russian still have a higher rate of abortion than Western Europe and the US.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a problem the church must face and offer a solution to. In the past many churches didn&#8217;t know where to start and with the exception of a rare mention in a sermon there was no concrete help offered. \u00a0However, reaching out to pregnant women and girls is just one way that the church in Ukraine can show love and provide real hope for people.<\/p>\n<p>Soon many churches will have an effective tool to combat abortion and to offer the hope of Jesus to young women and their families!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_869\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/69.89.31.195\/~sukofami\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DSC08856.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-869\" data-attachment-id=\"869\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/abortion-prevention-counselor-training\/sony-dsc-33\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DSC08856.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,361\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NEX-3&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1337195961&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;18&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.033333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;SONY DSC&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"counselor training for pregnancy care center in Odessa Ukraine\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Counselor training seminar led by missionary Holly Friesen&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DSC08856.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-869\" title=\"counselor training for pregnancy care center in Odessa Ukraine\" src=\"http:\/\/69.89.31.195\/~sukofami\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DSC08856.jpg\" alt=\"Learning how to counsel girls who find themselves pregnant\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DSC08856.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DSC08856-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DSC08856-460x260.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-869\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Counselor training seminar led by missionary Holly Friesen<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Yesterday our team-mate, Holly Friesen, began the counselor training program that will prepare those who will be serving in the\u00a0<a title=\"pregnancy care center\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ukrainemedical.abwe.org\/pro-life-ministry\" target=\"_blank\">pregnancy care center<\/a>\u00a0called, &#8220;Choose Life&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Holly along with Dr Miriam Wheeler are working hard to get this new ministry up and running. \u00a0They need your prayers this week as they train possible counselors for the pregnancy care center.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/33524167?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=c9ff23\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abortion was extremely common in Soviet times. \u00a0Today the rate is somewhat lower than it was 20 years ago, however,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[133,72,138,137,135,136,134,77],"class_list":["post-868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ministry","tag-abortion","tag-church","tag-counselor-training","tag-odessa","tag-pregnancy","tag-pregnancy-care-center","tag-soviet-union","tag-ukraine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3izZc-e0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2221,"url":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/pray-for-our-translators\/","url_meta":{"origin":868,"position":0},"title":"Pray for our Translators","author":"Caleb Suko","date":"February 2, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"In case you wondered what Christina does in her spare time when she's not homeschooling 4 kids, here it is! 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I hope you'll take a few moments to read through them and pray for Ukraine. If you'd like to get regular updates via email, you can do that here. Things are getting more difficult for Churches in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Ministry&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Ministry","link":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/category\/ministry\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sukofamily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30415279_2236715976342283_8986102757635129344_o.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sukofamily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30415279_2236715976342283_8986102757635129344_o.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sukofamily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30415279_2236715976342283_8986102757635129344_o.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sukofamily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30415279_2236715976342283_8986102757635129344_o.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sukofamily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30415279_2236715976342283_8986102757635129344_o.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sukofamily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30415279_2236715976342283_8986102757635129344_o.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}