{"id":4879,"date":"2017-11-01T10:39:43","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T14:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/?p=4879"},"modified":"2017-11-01T14:20:32","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T18:20:32","slug":"love-crosses-borders-anton-flores-maisonet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/2017\/11\/01\/love-crosses-borders-anton-flores-maisonet\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Love Crosses Borders&#8221; &#8211; Anton Flores-Maisonet"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4879-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/11\/11.01.17-AtonFloresSLWChapel.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/11\/11.01.17-AtonFloresSLWChapel.mp3\">https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/11\/11.01.17-AtonFloresSLWChapel.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><em>Rejoice in hope, be patient in suffering, persevere in prayer. Contribute to the needs of the saints; extend hospitality to strangers.<\/em> (Romans 12:11-13 NRSV)<\/p>\n<p>When fear seeks to erect walls in our hearts, laws, and borders, the call of the Church is to an even fiercer love. For over 15 years, Casa Alterna co-founder, Anton Flores-Maisonet, has extended hopeful, patient, and persevering hospitality to Latinx immigrants. Via stories that inspire, Anton will remind us all that love crosses borders.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anton Flores-Maisonet<\/strong> is co-founder of Casa Alterna, a hospitality house in Georgia devoted to faithful acts of mercy and justice alongside its Latinx neighbors. Casa Alterna serves as a hub for connecting and empowering neighbors via tutoring, community organizing, and popular education.<\/p>\n<p>Because of Anton&#8217;s prophetic advocacy and tireless solidarity, he has been honored by two Spanish-language Atlanta-based newspapers as their respective &#8220;Person of the Year&#8221;. Additionally, Alterna was named &#8220;Organization of the Year&#8221; by Mundo Hisp\u00e1nico, the largest Spanish-language newspaper in Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>Anton Flores-Maisonet holds degrees in social work from Georgia State University and the University of Georgia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"emu-podcast-embed\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4879-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/11\/11.01.17-AtonFloresSLWChapel.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/11\/11.01.17-AtonFloresSLWChapel.mp3\">https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/11\/11.01.17-AtonFloresSLWChapel.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p>Rejoice in hope, be patient in suffering, persevere in prayer. Contribute to the needs of the saints; extend hospitality to strangers. (Romans 12:11-13 NRSV) When fear seeks to erect walls in our hearts, laws, and borders, the call of the Church is to an even fiercer love. For over 15 years, Casa Alterna co-founder, Anton....<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4972,29,409],"tags":[4395,4999,4462,4691],"class_list":["post-4879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-many-parts-one-body","category-spiritual-life-week","category-chapel","tag-anton-flores-maisonet","tag-borders","tag-love","tag-spiritual-life-week","has-post-thumbnail","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4881,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4879\/revisions\/4881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}