{"id":629,"date":"2015-10-03T21:10:04","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T21:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordablazeministries.org\/?page_id=629"},"modified":"2015-10-03T21:11:34","modified_gmt":"2015-10-03T21:11:34","slug":"meet-the-toccos-real","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordablazeministries.org\/?page_id=629","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Tocco&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordablazeministries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Graduation-041.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-622 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/wordablazeministries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Graduation-041-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordablazeministries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Graduation-041-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/wordablazeministries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Graduation-041-731x1024.jpg 731w, https:\/\/wordablazeministries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Graduation-041-700x981.jpg 700w, https:\/\/wordablazeministries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Graduation-041-332x465.jpg 332w, https:\/\/wordablazeministries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Graduation-041.jpg 1142w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a>American missionaries Paul and Donna Tocco, founders of Word Ablaze Ministries, have been Christian evangelical missionaries in Kenya since 1993. Donna and Paul are originally from Pennsylvania, USA.\u00a0 They have three children &#8211; Ashley, her husband Chris and their three children, Tiana, Christopher, and Alivia and Jason and Josiah.<\/p>\n<p>Paul graduated with a BS in Business from Richard Stockton State University, NJ, as well as a BA in Theology from Beacon University, GA. Donna also has a BA in Theology from Beacon University.<\/p>\n<p>Donna and Paul Tocco&#8217;s purpose is to help the people of East Africa receive Jesus Christ. They want to see the lives of others changed by His love and power &#8211; just as their lives have been changed.\u00a0 Through the training that happens at the\u00a0 Word Ablaze Bible Institute, disciples and leaders are prepared to share the love of Christ to the nations of East Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The Tocco&#8217;s outreaches include teaching and training pastors and leaders; community development; evangelism; and outreaches to the poor.\u00a0 Through their diverse mission outreaches, the Tocco&#8217;s have traveled extensively teaching, preaching and showing the love of God to the African people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordablazeministries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Family-picture-2015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-625 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/wordablazeministries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Family-picture-2015-282x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"388\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordablazeministries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Family-picture-2015-282x300.jpg 282w, https:\/\/wordablazeministries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Family-picture-2015-332x354.jpg 332w, https:\/\/wordablazeministries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Family-picture-2015.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 388px) 100vw, 388px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordablazeministries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/ADD-TO-FAMILY-PAGE.jpg\">Paul and Donna with their children and grandchildren.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American missionaries Paul and Donna Tocco, founders of Word Ablaze Ministries, have been Christian evangelical missionaries in Kenya since 1993. Donna and Paul are originally from Pennsylvania, USA.\u00a0 They have three children &#8211; Ashley, her husband Chris and their three children, Tiana, Christopher, and Alivia and Jason and Josiah. Paul <a href=\"https:\/\/wordablazeministries.org\/?page_id=629#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordablazeministries.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordablazeministries.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordablazeministries.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordablazeministries.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordablazeministries.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordablazeministries.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":638,"href":"https:\/\/wordablazeministries.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/629\/revisions\/638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordablazeministries.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}