{"id":19292,"date":"2022-08-04T15:49:39","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T15:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=19292"},"modified":"2022-08-05T19:59:17","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T19:59:17","slug":"childrens-disaster-services-serves-asylum-seeking-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2022\/childrens-disaster-services-serves-asylum-seeking-families\/","title":{"rendered":"Children\u2019s Disaster Services serves asylum-seeking families"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"585\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/CDS-asylum-seekers.jpg\" alt=\"Children color and play with clay\" class=\"wp-image-19288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/CDS-asylum-seekers.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/CDS-asylum-seekers-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/CDS-asylum-seekers-768x449.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/CDS-asylum-seekers-560x328.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption><em>CDS caring for children of asylum seekers (2018). Photo courtesy of Children&#8217;s Disaster Services. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Children\u2019s Disaster Services presently has volunteers serving in the Washington, D.C., area with families who have been bussed from Texas and are seeking asylum in the United States. The families are dropped off with few provisions and are receiving support from local churches and mutual aid groups. CDS volunteers care for the children who have experienced many months of displacement in their young lives. Local and regional Church of the Brethren congregations are assisting this effort in a variety of ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Children\u2019s Disaster Services also has been asked by the national Red Cross organization to send volunteers to Kentucky to serve families affected by the flooding. A team of four will be traveling on Saturday, Aug. 6. Online donations to assist those in Kentucky can be made at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/churchofthebrethren.givingfuel.com\/all-ministries?registrants.fund=Emergency%20Disaster%20Fund\/%20Brethren%20Disaster%20Ministries%20(All)%5e&amp;registrants.additionalGiftNotes=Kentucky%202022%20Flooding\" target=\"_blank\">www.brethren.org\/give-kentucky-flooding<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As always, prayers are needed for all of these families and those responding to the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since 1980, Children\u2019s Disaster Services, a program of Brethren Disaster Ministries, has been meeting the needs of children by setting up child care centers in shelters and disaster assistance centers across the nation. Specially trained to respond to traumatized children, volunteers provide a calm, safe, and reassuring presence in the midst of the chaos created by tornadoes, floods, hurricanes, wildfires, and other natural or human-caused disasters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additional information about Children\u2019s Disaster Services can be found at&nbsp;www.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/cds\/\">brethren.org\/cds<\/a>. Help provide financial support for the work of CDS by donating to the Emergency Disaster Fund at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethren.org\/edf\">www.brethren.org\/edf<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children\u2019s Disaster Services presently has volunteers serving in the Washington, D.C., area with families who have been bussed from Texas and are seeking asylum in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19288,"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":[2482,1253,1758,457,1625],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-19292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church-of-the-brethren-newsline","tag-asylum","tag-cds","tag-children","tag-childrens-disaster-services","tag-washington"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19292","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19292"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19484,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19292\/revisions\/19484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19292"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=19292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}