{"id":3395,"date":"2023-01-26T18:26:59","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T18:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/?p=3395"},"modified":"2023-01-26T18:26:59","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T18:26:59","slug":"mount-morris-thanks-pinecrest-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/2023\/01\/26\/mount-morris-thanks-pinecrest-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Morris thanks Pinecrest staff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"604\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/01\/Mount-Morris-Church-of-the-Brethren.jpg\" alt=\"Peace pole in front of church building\" class=\"wp-image-3396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/01\/Mount-Morris-Church-of-the-Brethren.jpg 604w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/01\/Mount-Morris-Church-of-the-Brethren-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/01\/Mount-Morris-Church-of-the-Brethren-560x329.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Mount Morris Church of the Brethren<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following the news of the sale of the Pinecrest Community, a member of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100064762658489\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mount Morris (Ill.) Church of the Brethren<\/a>\u2013which is located just down the street from Pinecrest\u2013decided they wanted to do something to support the retirement community\u2019s staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The member, who wished to remain anonymous, decided to send a $20 gift card for a local supermarket to every staff member. They asked that the congregation send the cards with a letter of support to the employees, about 150 in all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And so, on Nov. 28, a letter signed by pastor Rodney Caldwell, moderator Brenda Nevenhoven, and leadership team chair Dianne Swingel accompanied the gift, beginning: \u201cThank you for your compassionate service to the residents of Pinecrest Community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2022\/mount-morris-church-shares-a-gift\/\">Read the full news story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of Mount Morris Church of the Brethren found a way to support Pinecrest Community staff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[246],"tags":[444,82,447,445,446],"class_list":["post-3395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-illinois-and-wisconsin","tag-06-180","tag-illinois","tag-illinois-and-wisconsin","tag-mount-morris-church-of-the-brethren","tag-pinecrest"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3395","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=3395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}