{"id":3209,"date":"2022-03-08T16:21:12","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T16:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/?p=3209"},"modified":"2022-03-08T16:21:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T16:21:13","slug":"middlebury-receives-state-grant-for-little-lites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/2022\/03\/08\/middlebury-receives-state-grant-for-little-lites\/","title":{"rendered":"Middlebury receives state grant for &#8220;Little Lites&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mcob.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Middlebury (Ind.) Church of the Brethren<\/a>\u2019s Little Lites Daycare Ministry recently received a \u201cBuild, Learn, Grow Stabilization\u201d grant from Indiana\u2019s Office of Early Childhood and Out-of-School Learning.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/littlelitesdaycareministry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"573\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2022\/03\/little-lights-daycare.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2022\/03\/little-lights-daycare.jpg 573w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2022\/03\/little-lights-daycare-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2022\/03\/little-lights-daycare-560x313.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 573px) 100vw, 573px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Middlebury Church opened Little Lites in June 2017 to serve the community, particularly neighbors with childcare needs due to employment in the local RV industry.\u00a0Currently, 95 children from 82 families are served, and there is a waiting list, so the need is critical for our community.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Along with holding families and staff in prayer, congregation members (mostly before the current pandemic) volunteer and also support Little Lites with donations. Children from the daycare crafted paper mittens for the church Christmas trees. Each mitten listed a need for Little Lites or the local food pantry. Middlebury folks contributed dolls, trucks, books, tissues, Lysol, and snacks for the daycare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full story at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2022\/little-lites-at-middlebury-church\/\">www.brethren.org\/news\/2022\/little-lites-at-middlebury-church<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"399\" data-id=\"3208\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2022\/03\/Little-Lites-Middlebury-Church.jpg\" alt=\"Boy making craft cow\" class=\"wp-image-3208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2022\/03\/Little-Lites-Middlebury-Church.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2022\/03\/Little-Lites-Middlebury-Church-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption>Photo courtesy of Middlebury Church of the Brethren<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" data-id=\"3207\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2022\/03\/Hug-Little-Lites-Middlebury-church.jpg\" alt=\"Children hugging\" class=\"wp-image-3207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2022\/03\/Hug-Little-Lites-Middlebury-church.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2022\/03\/Hug-Little-Lites-Middlebury-church-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption>Photo courtesy of Middlebury Church of the Brethren<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Middlebury Church of the Brethren recently received a grant to support its Little Lites Daycare Ministry. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3207,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[311,315,314,313,312,307],"class_list":["post-3209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indiana-northern","tag-09-250","tag-child-care","tag-daycare","tag-little-lites","tag-middlebury-church-of-the-brethren","tag-northern-indiana-district"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}