{"id":8711,"date":"2023-07-07T22:39:22","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T22:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/?page_id=8711"},"modified":"2023-09-02T01:01:40","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T01:01:40","slug":"ellen-varughese","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/?page_id=8711","title":{"rendered":"Ellen Varughese"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Ellen Varughese<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile is-image-fill\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/awsa.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Ellen-Headshot.jpg);background-position:52% 25%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"432\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/awsa.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Ellen-Headshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8712 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/awsa.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Ellen-Headshot.jpg 432w, https:\/\/awsa.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Ellen-Headshot-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/awsa.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Ellen-Headshot-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/awsa.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Ellen-Headshot-65x65.jpg 65w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>Contact information<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Ellen300@gmail.com<br>www.joypress.org<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>BIO:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am Ellen Johnson Varughese. I was born into a Danish family in&nbsp;Solvang, CA and raised 30 miles<br>away in Santa Maria, known for broccoli and strawberries. I grew up going to church and playing<br>my violin.<br>As an adult, I served the Lord on two mission fields, Denmark, and Japan. I earned a master\u2019s<br>degree in Linguistics, and the year before my marriage I was a software engineer on the Space<br>Shuttle.<br>I turned to writing when I self published my book on marriage for Christian singles in 1992. It was<br>called The Freedom to Marry, and it sold 2,000 copies by word of mouth, before we had the<br>internet.<br>My second book, The Bible Reading Revolution, contains helpful tips and strategies for<br>systematic Bible reading. My most recent book is Christ on the Dusty Roads of India, written by<br>my husband, N.J. Varughese. I was his editor and ghostwriter.<br>You can order all three books from my website: www.joypress.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ellen Varughese Contact information Ellen300@gmail.comwww.joypress.org BIO: I am Ellen Johnson Varughese. I was born into a Danish family in&nbsp;Solvang, CA and raised 30 milesaway in Santa Maria, known for broccoli and strawberries. I grew up going to church and playingmy violin.As an adult, I served the Lord on two mission fields, Denmark, and Japan. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8711"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8711"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9773,"href":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8711\/revisions\/9773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awsa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}