{"id":3250,"date":"2022-09-07T17:43:34","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T17:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/?p=3250"},"modified":"2022-09-07T17:44:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T17:44:26","slug":"friendship-upgrades-playground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/2022\/09\/07\/friendship-upgrades-playground\/","title":{"rendered":"Friendship upgrades playground"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"402\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2022\/09\/Friendship-Church-of-the-Brethren.jpg\" alt=\"Image of Friendship Church of the Brethren home page with ad for Vacation Bible School\" class=\"wp-image-3251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2022\/09\/Friendship-Church-of-the-Brethren.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2022\/09\/Friendship-Church-of-the-Brethren-300x134.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2022\/09\/Friendship-Church-of-the-Brethren-768x343.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2022\/09\/Friendship-Church-of-the-Brethren-560x250.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.friendshipbrethren.org\/home\" target=\"_blank\">Friendship Church of the Brethren<\/a> in Linthicum Heights, Maryland, recently received a grant from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/faith-in-action\/\">Brethren Faith in Action fund<\/a> to enhance and expand its community outreach by replacing old playground equipment on church property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After surveying the congregation and community, the church discerned the need for a safe, accessible play area for children. Upgrading the church\u2019s playground equipment helps to meet the congregation\u2019s goal to reach more children and families in the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project includes the removal and disposal of 25+-year-old playground equipment, spreading accessible playground mulch, building an ADA ramp, installing new accessible equipment, and offering scheduled Bible-themed play events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grant funds will support the removal of old playground equipment, the purchase and installation of new equipment, and improvements to the play area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>View <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FriendshipCOB\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Friendship Church of the Brethren worship services<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friendship Church of the Brethren recently received a grant from the Brethren Faith in Action fund to enhance and expand its community outreach by replacing old playground equipment on church property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3251,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[365,370,366,367,369,364,102,103,368],"class_list":["post-3250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mid-atlantic","tag-20-050","tag-ada","tag-bfia","tag-brethren-faith-in-action-fund","tag-community","tag-friendship-church-of-the-brethren","tag-maryland","tag-mid-atlantic-district","tag-playground"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250","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=3250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}