{"id":16953,"date":"2025-11-21T21:11:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T21:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianfilipina.com\/testimonials_preprod\/?p=16953"},"modified":"2025-11-21T21:11:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T21:11:41","slug":"november-19-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prod-cf.christianfilipina.com\/testimonials\/november-19-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"November 19, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16954 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christianfilipina.com\/testimonials_preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Matt-and-Claide-Brown-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prod-cf.christianfilipina.com\/testimonials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Matt-and-Claide-Brown-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/prod-cf.christianfilipina.com\/testimonials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Matt-and-Claide-Brown.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I met my fianc\u00e9e, Claide Penas, on Christian Filipina in July 2024, and just a month later, I traveled to Danao City, Philippines, to meet her in person. During that unforgettable trip, we even got to celebrate our birthdays together\u2014just days apart. Claide is a devoted Christian and truly the greatest blessing God has brought into my life. She has brought me more joy than I ever thought possible and has helped restore my faith in Christ through her kindness, strength, and love.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In September 2025, her K-1 visa was officially approved, and soon she\u2019ll be joining me here in Austin, Texas, where there\u2019s a wonderful Filipino community\u2014and of course, our favorite comfort food spot, Jollibee! We are grateful to God for guiding our journey and for the beautiful future we\u2019re building together.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Matt Brown, Texas, United States<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I met my fianc\u00e9e, Claide Penas, on Christian Filipina in July 2024, and just a month later, I traveled to Danao City, Philippines, to meet her in person. During that unforgettable trip, we even got to celebrate our birthdays together\u2014just days apart. Claide is a devoted Christian and truly the greatest blessing God has brought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-testimonials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prod-cf.christianfilipina.com\/testimonials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prod-cf.christianfilipina.com\/testimonials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prod-cf.christianfilipina.com\/testimonials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prod-cf.christianfilipina.com\/testimonials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prod-cf.christianfilipina.com\/testimonials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16953"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/prod-cf.christianfilipina.com\/testimonials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16958,"href":"https:\/\/prod-cf.christianfilipina.com\/testimonials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16953\/revisions\/16958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prod-cf.christianfilipina.com\/testimonials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prod-cf.christianfilipina.com\/testimonials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prod-cf.christianfilipina.com\/testimonials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}