{"id":10734,"date":"2025-03-26T14:38:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T19:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nafwb.org\/site\/?p=10734"},"modified":"2025-09-12T08:17:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T13:17:28","slug":"hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nafwb.org\/site\/hope\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hope Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Click below to purchase The Hope Initiative through Church Answers. Use the coupon code <strong>NAFWB50%<\/strong> to receive the Free Will Baptist discount:<\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/churchanswers.com\/partner-page-national-association-of-free-will-baptists\/\">Purchase The Hope Initiative<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Hope Initiative Promo\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/62EgAmCuEN0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Executive Secretary Dr. Eddie Moody introduces The Hope Initiative at the 2022 Leadership Conference:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qb68Dd404Bo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pastor Noah Taylor describes how the church\u2019s participation in The Hope Initiative has had an immediate impact on the intentionality of their evangelism efforts, and has already resulted in one salvation decision:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I5w1YCRSIX4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11250\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nafwb.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Saved-Party-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11250\" class=\"wp-image-11250 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/nafwb.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Saved-Party-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nafwb.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Saved-Party-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nafwb.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Saved-Party-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nafwb.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Saved-Party-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nafwb.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Saved-Party-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/nafwb.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Saved-Party-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/nafwb.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Saved-Party-1080x810.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11250\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The &#8220;Saved Party&#8221; Pastor Noah refers to in the video.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_11245\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nafwb.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Baptism.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11245\" class=\"wp-image-11245 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/nafwb.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Baptism-200x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nafwb.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Baptism-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/nafwb.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Baptism.png 682w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11245\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Following through with believers&#8217; baptism.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click below to purchase The Hope Initiative through Church Answers. Use the coupon code NAFWB50% to receive the Free Will Baptist discount: Purchase The Hope Initiative Executive Secretary Dr. Eddie Moody introduces The Hope Initiative at the 2022 Leadership Conference: &nbsp; Pastor Noah Taylor describes how the church\u2019s participation in The Hope Initiative has had an immediate impact on the intentionality of their evangelism efforts, and has already resulted in one salvation decision: &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nafwb.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nafwb.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nafwb.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nafwb.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nafwb.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10734"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/nafwb.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13673,"href":"https:\/\/nafwb.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10734\/revisions\/13673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nafwb.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nafwb.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nafwb.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nafwb.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}