{"id":21126,"date":"2023-02-11T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=21126"},"modified":"2023-02-11T17:24:56","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T17:24:56","slug":"please-continue-praying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2023\/please-continue-praying\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Please continue praying\u2019: Brethren Disaster Ministries responds to earthquake in Turkey and Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cPlease continue to pray for survivors in the affected areas [of Turkey and Syria] who face the trauma of losing homes and loved ones, continued aftershocks, living out of doors without basic amenities\/food and in freezing temperatures, and in danger of diseases such as cholera. Their needs are great and will continue to be great for a long time to come. Please also pray for all the official and unofficial responders.\u201d <br>&#8212; Brethren Disaster Ministries lifting up the earthquake crisis in Turkey and Syria, in a Facebook post on Friday, Feb. 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brethren Disaster Ministries staff are exploring how to support partners directly on the ground who are already meeting the needs of survivors as they can. The staff are working to be \u201cas strategic as we can in making sure that the funds we send go where they are most needed and where needs are not being met.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/VOAPhotoOfEarthquakeInTurkey-Syria-publicdomain-600px.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/VOAPhotoOfEarthquakeInTurkey-Syria-publicdomain-600px.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/VOAPhotoOfEarthquakeInTurkey-Syria-publicdomain-600px-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/VOAPhotoOfEarthquakeInTurkey-Syria-publicdomain-600px-560x315.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Photo: Voice of America, public domain<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>On Friday, Feb. 10, grants totaling $50,000 were approved for two partner organizations, given from the Church of the Brethren\u2019s Emergency Disaster Fund (EDF):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; <strong>$25,000 to support the Lutheran World Relief<\/strong> shipment of supplies to Turkey for emergency earthquake relief, and<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; <strong>$25,000 to support the Lebanese Society for Education and Social Development<\/strong> earthquake response program in Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Church members and congregations may support the earthquake response by donating online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethren.org\/giveearthquakeresponse\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"www.brethren.org\/giveearthquakeresponse\">www.brethren.org\/giveearthquakeresponse<\/a> or by sending a check to: Emergency Disaster Fund, 1451 Dundee Ave., Elgin, IL 60120, with \u201cearthquake response\u201d in the memo line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Find more Church of the Brethren news:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list wp-block-latest-posts\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/new-interim-leadership-positions\/\">Madalyn Metzger and Rhonda Pittman Gingrich to serve in new interim positions with the Church of the Brethren<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/global-church-of-the-brethren-communion-meets\/\">Global Church of the Brethren Communion meets in Spain<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/grant-of-500000-to-church-supports-bdm\/\">Grant of $500,000 to the Church of the Brethren will support Brethren Disaster Ministries<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/god-at-work-in-the-dr\/\">Discovering joys, challenges, and God at work with the churches in the Dominican Republic<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/global-mission-executive-visits-burundi\/\">Global Mission executive visits Church of the Brethren in Burundi, meets with church leaders from Democratic Republic of Congo<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPlease continue to pray for survivors in the affected areas [of Turkey and Syria] who face the trauma of losing homes and loved ones, continued aftershocks, living out of doors without basic amenities\/food and in freezing temperatures, and in danger of diseases such as cholera. Their needs are great and will continue to be great for a long time to come. Please also pray for all the official and unofficial responders.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8212; Brethren Disaster Ministries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21127,"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":[1252,456,3,2075,1254,1762,1332,9,2622,638,637],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-21126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church-of-the-brethren-newsline","tag-bdm","tag-brethren-disaster-ministries","tag-church-of-the-brethren","tag-disaster-grants","tag-disaster-relief","tag-earthquake","tag-edf","tag-emergency-disaster-fund","tag-lutheran-world-relief","tag-syria","tag-turkey"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21126","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=21126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21133,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21126\/revisions\/21133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21126"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=21126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}