{"id":3236,"date":"2022-06-09T16:34:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T16:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/?p=3236"},"modified":"2022-06-09T16:34:08","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T16:34:08","slug":"mechanicsburg-helps-welcome-afghan-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/2022\/06\/09\/mechanicsburg-helps-welcome-afghan-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Mechanicsburg helps welcome Afghan family"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"361\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2022\/06\/Mechanicsburg-Helps-Welcome-Afghan-Family-Sherri-Kimmel.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people smiles\" class=\"wp-image-3235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2022\/06\/Mechanicsburg-Helps-Welcome-Afghan-Family-Sherri-Kimmel.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2022\/06\/Mechanicsburg-Helps-Welcome-Afghan-Family-Sherri-Kimmel-300x144.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2022\/06\/Mechanicsburg-Helps-Welcome-Afghan-Family-Sherri-Kimmel-560x270.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><figcaption><em>Members of the welcome team, including people from Mechanicsburg Church of the Brethren, with the Afghan family they are helping to resettle in Pennsylvania. Photo courtesy of Sherri Kimmel.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A ten-member, three-church welcome team has worked with Church World Service to resettle a young Afghan family of four in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. A welcome team from <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mechanicsburgcob.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mechanicsburg Church of the Brethren<\/a>, Grantham Brethren in Christ, and Mechanicsburg Presbyterian Church gathered household goods and furniture, formed a transportation team, and completed clearances that would enable them to interact with the family they would be supporting.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Find the full story at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2022\/mechanicsburg-helps-welcome-afghan-family\/\">www.brethren.org\/news\/2022\/mechanicsburg-helps-welcome-afghan-family<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A ten-member, three-church welcome team has worked with Church World Service to resettle a young Afghan family of four in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[342,346,169,343,345,344],"class_list":["post-3236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pennsylvania-southern","tag-36-180","tag-afghan","tag-church-world-service","tag-mechanicsburg-church-of-the-brethren","tag-refugee","tag-southern-pennsylvania-district"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3236","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=3236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}