{"id":21829,"date":"2023-05-23T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T16:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=21829"},"modified":"2023-05-23T21:12:03","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T21:12:03","slug":"material-resources-program-busy-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2023\/material-resources-program-busy-week\/","title":{"rendered":"A busy week at the Material Resources warehouse"},"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>Material Resources staff at the Brethren Service Center in New Windsor, Md., have been very busy with a number of recent shipments of relief goods:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The staff unloaded three 53-foot \u201cpiggyback\u201d trailers from Portland, Ore., and Seattle and Spokane, Wash., filled with Lutheran World Relief donations of quilts and kits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two 40-foot containers were filled with medical supplies and equipment and shipped to Haiti and Tanzania on behalf of the Brothers Brother Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shipments made on behalf of Church World Service (CWS) included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; 210 fleece blankets shipped to Arizona for a Border Shelter Response;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; 30 fleece blankets and 120 hygiene kits shipped to New York for refugee use;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; 100 wool blankets, 90 fleece blankets, and 36 period packs for houseless people in Arkansas;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; 50 wool blankets, 60 fleece blankets, 60 school kits, 120 hygiene kits, 72 period kits, and 120 tubes of toothpaste for houseless people in North Carolina; and<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; 30 fleece blankets, 150 school kits, 120 hygiene kits, 120 tubes of toothpaste, 108 period packs, and 36 cleanup buckets for the New Jersey Refugee Resettlement Area.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"507\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/MaterialResourcesShipment-2-600px.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21830\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/MaterialResourcesShipment-2-600px.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/MaterialResourcesShipment-2-600px-300x254.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/MaterialResourcesShipment-2-600px-560x473.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#e2eaee\"><em><strong>Please pray\u2026<\/strong> For the relief goods shipped by Material Resources staff, that they may meet the needs of people affected by disasters both natural and man-made.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Find out more about the Church of the Brethren\u2019s Material Resources program at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethren.org\/brethrenservicecenter\/materialresources\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"www.brethren.org\/brethrenservicecenter\/materialresources\">www.brethren.org\/brethrenservicecenter\/materialresources<\/a>.<\/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\/learnings-from-l-e-a-d-conference\/\">\u2018What got us here won\u2019t get us there\u2019: Learnings from the L.E.A.D. Conference<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/wfc-hiroshima-seeks-volunteers\/\">World Friendship Center in Hiroshima seeks volunteer co-directors through Brethren Volunteer Service<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/virtual-delegate-briefing-may-27\/\">Annual Conference officers to host virtual delegate briefing on May 27<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/childrens-book-about-feetwashing\/\">Brethren Press publishes children\u2019s book about feetwashing written by Gimbiya Kettering<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/new-brethren-rapid-response-network\/\">A new Brethren Rapid Response Network is organized<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Material Resources staff at the Brethren Service Center in New Windsor, Md., have been very busy with a number of recent shipments of relief goods<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21830,"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":[582,3,26,1589,1254,2383,458],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-21829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church-of-the-brethren-newsline","tag-brethren-service-center","tag-church-of-the-brethren","tag-church-world-service","tag-cws","tag-disaster-relief","tag-disaster-shipments","tag-material-resources"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21829","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=21829"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21834,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21829\/revisions\/21834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21829"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=21829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}