{"id":2,"date":"2019-06-10T11:33:53","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T11:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brookside.artstudioworks.net\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-04-05T02:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T02:40:15","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/meetnostrangers.com\/index.php\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Andrew and Maiya are two Americans who were called to be missionaries to Spain. Their story actually begins in Spain &#8211; where they met while serving at the <a href=\"https:\/\/madrid.jcum.com\/en-home\/\">YWAM Madrid<\/a> base, and discovered that they both shared the same vision: To <a href=\"https:\/\/meetnostrangers.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/30\/meet-no-strangers\/\">Meet No Strangers<\/a> &#8211; <em>sharing the love of Christ by meeting people&#8217;s needs to connect them with Him<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2555\" height=\"1659\" src=\"https:\/\/meetnostrangers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC08349-scaled-e1775356298122.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2366\" style=\"width:1058px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meetnostrangers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC08349-scaled-e1775356298122.jpg 2555w, https:\/\/meetnostrangers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC08349-scaled-e1775356298122-768x499.jpg 768w, https:\/\/meetnostrangers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC08349-scaled-e1775356298122-1536x997.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/meetnostrangers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC08349-scaled-e1775356298122-2048x1330.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/meetnostrangers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC08349-scaled-e1775356298122-845x550.jpg 845w, https:\/\/meetnostrangers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC08349-scaled-e1775356298122-585x380.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2555px) 100vw, 2555px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Andrew has been a full time missionary since 2017, and Maiya since 2018. They got married in March 2020, welcomed their first little girl, Isabela, into their family in April 2022, Gabriela, their second little girl was born in November 2023, and Ariela, their third little girl, made her grand entrance in October 2025. Currently, they are both serving on the YWAM Madrid leadership team, as well as serving in various other roles at the base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you would like additional information, head over to the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/meetnostrangers.com\/index.php\/get-involved\/\">Get Connected<\/a>&#8221; page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew and Maiya are two Americans who were called to be missionaries to Spain. Their story actually begins in Spain &#8211; where they met while serving at the YWAM Madrid base, and discovered that they both shared the same vision: To Meet No Strangers &#8211; sharing the love of Christ by meeting people&#8217;s needs to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetnostrangers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetnostrangers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetnostrangers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetnostrangers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetnostrangers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/meetnostrangers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2372,"href":"https:\/\/meetnostrangers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/2372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetnostrangers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}