{"id":258872,"date":"2017-08-08T11:15:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T17:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.navigators.org\/?post_type=mission&#038;p=3423"},"modified":"2025-05-07T09:13:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T15:13:27","slug":"navigators-via-affirmativa","status":"publish","type":"mission-type","link":"https:\/\/www.navigators.org\/ministry\/navigators-via-affirmativa\/","title":{"rendered":"Navigators Via Affirmativa"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">\r\n.nav-mission-links-block {\r\n\tbackground-color: #eeeceb;\r\n\tborder-radius: 4px;\r\n\tpadding: 0;\r\n}\r\n.single-mission-type #content #main .entry-content .nav-mission-links-block {\r\n\twidth: 540px;\r\n    margin-bottom: 60px;\r\n}\r\n.nav-mission-links-block:after {\r\n\tcontent: '';\r\n\tdisplay: table;\r\n\tclear: both;\r\n}\r\n.nav-mission-links-block div {\r\n\tpadding: 24px 20px 20px;\r\n    font-weight: bold;\r\n    line-height: 1;\r\n}\r\n.nav-mission-links-block 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Affirmativa celebrates beauty, affirms artists, and engages communities with the Good News. As in Genesis, where God creates mankind and declares that we will bear His image, members of Via Affirmativa share His creativity in renewing their own lives and the lives of others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>\u201cArtists are people who see things differently than everybody else does because they\u2019re oriented towards looking for things about the world around them that most people just don\u2019t take the time to pay attention to.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<cite><em>Skip Asjes, Via Affirmativa<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Navigators in the Via Affirmativa movement seek to connect and champion art makers within the cultural mainstream so that all kinds of people can journey through beauty back to its source\u2013the living God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group join-staff\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center montserrat has-brown-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ac5e038d73c2ebdd416db8b1e674155f\" id=\"h-get-involved\">Get Involved<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-orange-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-orange-background-color has-background is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-orange-background-color has-background has-text-align-center wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.viaaffirmativa.org\/\" style=\"border-radius:4px\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Learn More<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-orange-background-color has-background has-text-align-left wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.viaaffirmativa.org\/\" style=\"border-radius:4px\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Contact Us<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-orange-background-color has-background has-text-align-left wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/joinstaff.navigators.org\" style=\"border-radius:4px\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Join Staff<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":263340,"menu_order":18,"template":"","mission":[67],"topic":[47],"class_list":["post-258872","mission-type","type-mission-type","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","mission-navigators-via-affirmativa","topic-site-content"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.navigators.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mission-type\/258872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.navigators.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mission-type"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.navigators.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mission-type"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.navigators.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mission-type\/258872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263345,"href":"https:\/\/www.navigators.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mission-type\/258872\/revisions\/263345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.navigators.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.navigators.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"mission","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.navigators.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mission?post=258872"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.navigators.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=258872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}