{"id":3294,"date":"2022-10-24T18:58:07","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T18:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/?p=3294"},"modified":"2022-10-24T18:58:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T18:58:08","slug":"bethel-restores-community-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/2022\/10\/24\/bethel-restores-community-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethel restores community center"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bethel Church of the Brethren in Arriba, Colorado, recently completed a 10-year project restoring the church’s recreation center. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Bethel Community Center activities include church- and individual-sponsored events such as roller-skating, parties, family gatherings, funerals, meetings, Vacation Bible School, get to know your neighbor activities, social events, concerts, movies, recreation, and more, serving a wide range of people. Girl Scouts and 4-H clubs from the neighboring community and neighboring towns use the building for meetings, parties, and recreation. Multiple birthday parties are held, where skating and recreation are a featured part of the party. Youth use the building for basketball\/volleyball practice. Neighboring youth groups use the facility for parties. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

People from a wide area, including portions of three counties, use the center. It is a project designed to bring together, support, and deepen community engagement. The center also provides a shelter the community may use during catastrophic events.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Renovations at Bethel Community Center in Arriba, Colorado. Photo courtesy of Bethel Church of the Brethren. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The mission of Bethel Community Center is to be \u201cA Gathering Place Where Friends Become Family.\u201d From inception, the intent has been to open a modern ADA accessible facility to strengthen this community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This project demonstrates an innovative way for one rural congregation to address the needs in its local community. Find out more in the Newsline story about Bethel Community Center<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story courtesy of Newsline, with text by Mary Ann Saffer. Subscribe to Newsline here<\/a> (it’s free). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The mission of Bethel Community Center in Arriba, Colorado, is to be \u201cA Gathering Place Where Friends Become Family.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[395,396,369,153],"class_list":["post-3294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-western-plains","tag-45-015","tag-bethel-church-of-the-brethren","tag-community","tag-western-plains"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294","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=3294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}