{"id":7935,"date":"2025-07-09T12:37:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T17:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstenglish.net\/wp\/?p=7935"},"modified":"2025-07-09T12:37:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T17:37:04","slug":"dr-stephen-jodi-swanson-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstenglish.net\/wp\/dr-stephen-jodi-swanson-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Stephen &amp; Jodi Swanson Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dr. Stephen &amp; Jodi Swanson are entering a Season of Change. After much prayer and discernment, they have resigned from their role as missionaries in the ELCA.\u00a0 Their last day with the ELCA will be October 31, 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are ending their employment with the ELCA, but they are continuing their work with infants, children and mothers in Arusha. They are not leaving Tanzania. They plan\u00a0to continue on in the work they have been doing the past decade: training healthcare workers and fostering innovation in neonatology in ways that are specific to the African context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more about that in these letters below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/firstenglish.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/DrStephen-and-Jodi-SwansonNEWSLETTER-July25.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of DrStephen and Jodi SwansonNEWSLETTER-July25.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-5c74521e-0e0b-4a35-b5a7-0054d81441b4\" href=\"https:\/\/firstenglish.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/DrStephen-and-Jodi-SwansonNEWSLETTER-July25.pdf\">DrStephen and Jodi SwansonNEWSLETTER-July25<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/firstenglish.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/DrStephen-and-Jodi-SwansonNEWSLETTER-July25.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-5c74521e-0e0b-4a35-b5a7-0054d81441b4\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/firstenglish.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Swanson-Letter.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Swanson Letter.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-b9ed6f85-31bc-4376-b8a0-e6c832324bc1\" href=\"https:\/\/firstenglish.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Swanson-Letter.pdf\">Swanson Letter<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/firstenglish.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Swanson-Letter.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-b9ed6f85-31bc-4376-b8a0-e6c832324bc1\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Stephen &amp; Jodi Swanson are entering a Season of Change. After much prayer and discernment, they have resigned from their role as missionaries in the ELCA.\u00a0 Their last day&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/firstenglish.net\/wp\/dr-stephen-jodi-swanson-update\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dr. Stephen &amp; Jodi Swanson Update<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7938,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsletters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstenglish.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstenglish.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstenglish.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstenglish.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstenglish.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/firstenglish.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7939,"href":"https:\/\/firstenglish.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7935\/revisions\/7939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstenglish.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstenglish.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstenglish.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstenglish.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}