{"id":11632,"date":"2016-07-05T00:00:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T00:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.brethren.org\/news\/?p=11632"},"modified":"2018-11-03T20:27:31","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T20:27:31","slug":"witness-to-the-host-city-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2016\/witness-to-the-host-city-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Witness to the Host City\u2019 Collections Support Two Organizations in Greensboro"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11633\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11633\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11633\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/items-collected-for-backpack.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/items-collected-for-backpack.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/items-collected-for-backpack-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11633\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><small>photo by Regina Holmes<\/small><br \/><em>Items collected for Backpack Beginnings.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>By Monica McFadden<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Throughout the week of the 2016 Annual Conference, the annual \u201cWitness to the Host City\u201d collections took place to support two organizations local to Greensboro, N.C. A collection of hygiene items was held for Backpack Beginnings, and there was a collection of clothing for the Encore! Boutique Thrift Store, which is part of Step Up Greensboro.<\/p>\n<p>Backpack Beginnings is a project that provides food, clothing, and comfort to children in need. This organization has grown to support over 4,000 children. Annual Conference attendees donated many items including notebooks, toothbrushes, and shampoo for the organization\u2019s comfort backpacks. Cash and check donations added up to $2,793.<\/p>\n<p>The Encore! Boutique Thrift Store is part of Step Up Greensboro, a program of First Presbyterian Church that works to provide professional clothing for those who have completed their job training program. \u201cWe\u2019re a relationship-based program for individuals that are underprivileged, unemployed, often times without stable housing, [and] many have been incarcerated, and they come to us for job training,\u201d said Tammy Tierney, store manager. \u201cThe clothing you donated&#8211;every single individual who comes through our program leaves with an interview suit.\u201d On July 2, Step Up was presented with a check for $815, collected from Conference-goers, in addition to the clothing donations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like I\u2019m home,\u201d Tierney told the delegate body. \u201cMy grandfather\u2019s family were members of the Antioch Church of the Brethren,\u201d she said. \u201cThe clothing and the dollars go a long way&#8230;. Thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><small>The 2016 Annual Conference News Team includes: writers Frank Ramirez, Frances Townsend, Karen Garrett, Tyler Roebuck, Monica McFadden; photographers Glenn Riegel, Regina Holmes, Keith Hollenberg, Donna Parcell, Laura Brown; Conference Journal editor Eddie Edmonds; web manager Jan Fischer Bachman; web staff Russ Otto; editor Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Witness to the Host City\u2019 collections support two organizations in Greensboro<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1258],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-11632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-annual-conference"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11634,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11632\/revisions\/11634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11632"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=11632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}