{"id":17212,"date":"2026-03-09T20:33:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianfilipina.com\/testimonials_preprod\/?p=17212"},"modified":"2026-03-12T06:35:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T06:35:59","slug":"march-9-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prod-cf.christianfilipina.com\/testimonials\/march-9-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"March 9, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-17213 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christianfilipina.com\/testimonials_preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Gene-and-Hazel-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prod-cf.christianfilipina.com\/testimonials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Gene-and-Hazel-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/prod-cf.christianfilipina.com\/testimonials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Gene-and-Hazel-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/prod-cf.christianfilipina.com\/testimonials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Gene-and-Hazel-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/prod-cf.christianfilipina.com\/testimonials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Gene-and-Hazel-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/prod-cf.christianfilipina.com\/testimonials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Gene-and-Hazel.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/>Hazel and I met in February 2024 on Christian Filipina. After a few days of exchanging messages, we began video chatting for three to four hours every day; we read the Bible together, prayed together, and sought God\u2019s guidance for our future. We both felt as if He had brought us together, so I sold my house in August and moved to General Santos City in September 2024, where I rented a house in a subdivision. We spent every day together, and I quickly connected with her two teenage children. After a month, we got engaged, and we were married in December 2024. Since then, we have bought property and built a home in her province, where we have a beautiful view of Mt. Matutum. We\u2019ve become deeply involved in our local church and community, and we truly love the opportunity to share our blessings and our home with others. I can honestly say this was one of the best decisions of my life; I truly love our life here in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Gene and Hazel, South Cotabato, Philippines<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hazel and I met in February 2024 on Christian Filipina. After a few days of exchanging messages, we began video chatting for three to four hours every day; we read the Bible together, prayed together, and sought God\u2019s guidance for our future. We both felt as if He had brought us together, so I sold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-testimonials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prod-cf.christianfilipina.com\/testimonials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17212","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prod-cf.christianfilipina.com\/testimonials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17212"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/prod-cf.christianfilipina.com\/testimonials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17262,"href":"https:\/\/prod-cf.christianfilipina.com\/testimonials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17212\/revisions\/17262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prod-cf.christianfilipina.com\/testimonials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prod-cf.christianfilipina.com\/testimonials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prod-cf.christianfilipina.com\/testimonials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}