<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/_dev-testing/2026-08-21/magazine/fall-2012/adopting-neighborhood-children.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>Adopting a Neighborhood of Children</title><excerpt>In 1989, Steve ’88 and Jenni Halvorsen ’88 Wiebe rented a cheap apartment close to Fuller Theological Seminary and found a home and a ministry in their Pasadena neighborhood. They’ve lived in the same spot for 23 years, leaving the apartment only to move into an old house across the street. “We never expected to have an urban ministry,” Jenni says. “But once we got here, we saw the need and felt God’s call.”</excerpt><author/><image>
            
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