{"id":17482,"date":"2021-09-23T15:21:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T15:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=17482"},"modified":"2021-09-23T20:23:30","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T20:23:30","slug":"disaster-grant-supports-home-rebuilding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2021\/disaster-grant-supports-home-rebuilding\/","title":{"rendered":"Disaster grant supports home rebuilding by Congolese Brethren following eruption of Nyiragongo volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brethren Disaster Ministries staff have directed an additional grant of $25,000 from the Church of the Brethren\u2019s Emergency Disaster Fund (EDF) to support repair or rebuilding of 54 homes damaged in the eruption of Mount Nyiragongo. The volcano erupted near the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on May 22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Previous EDF grants for this appeal include an initial grant of $5,000 on May 26 that supported Eglise des Freres au Congo (the Church of the Brethren in the DRC) in providing food relief to at-risk families, and a grant of $25,000 given on July 1 that was used for continued food aid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With this grant, the Goma congregation plans to repair 23 homes damaged in the eruption and build 31 new homes to replace houses that were destroyed, providing shelter for 432 people including 240 children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To contribute financially to this work, give online at <a href=\"https:\/\/churchofthebrethren.givingfuel.com\/bdm\">https:\/\/churchofthebrethren.givingfuel.com\/bdm<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Find more Church of the Brethren news:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list wp-block-latest-posts is-layout-flow wp-block-latest-posts-is-layout-flow\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/board-considers-leadership-priorities\/\">Mission and Ministry Board considers priorities for next general secretary, approves 2027 budget<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/la-junta-de-misiones-y-ministerios\/\">La Junta de Misiones y Ministerios considera las prioridades para el pr\u00f3ximo secretario general y aprueba el presupuesto de 2027.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/konsey-misyon-ak-ministe\/\">Kons\u00e8y Misyon ak Minist\u00e8 a ap egzamine priyorite pou pwochen sekret\u00e8 jeneral la, epi apwouve bidj\u00e8 2027 la.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/partnership-marked-by-ribbon-cutting\/\">Catholic Medical Mission Board and Church of the Brethren to mark partnership with ribbon-cutting<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/la-junta-de-misiones-medicas\/\">La Junta de Misiones M\u00e9dicas Cat\u00f3licas y la Iglesia de los Hermanos celebrar\u00e1n su alianza con una ceremonia de inauguraci\u00f3n.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brethren Disaster Ministries staff have directed an additional grant of $25,000 from the Church of the Brethren\u2019s Emergency Disaster Fund (EDF) to support repair or rebuilding of 54 homes damaged in the eruption of Mount Nyiragongo. The volcano erupted near the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on May 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":[1703],"tags":[1252,456,3,2214,1742,1743,1332,9,2103],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-17482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-the-brethren-newsline","tag-bdm","tag-brethren-disaster-ministries","tag-church-of-the-brethren","tag-congo","tag-democratic-republic-of-congo","tag-drc","tag-edf","tag-emergency-disaster-fund","tag-volcano"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17482","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17483,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17482\/revisions\/17483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17482"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=17482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}