{"id":22373,"date":"2023-07-24T22:34:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T22:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=22373"},"modified":"2023-07-24T22:34:21","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T22:34:21","slug":"brownsville-hosts-meeting-on-local-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2023\/brownsville-hosts-meeting-on-local-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Brownsville hosts meeting about safety of local road"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By Calvin Park<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At Brownsville Church of the Brethren we recently found a way to be good neighbors that we\u2019re excited about and thought other churches might be interested in hearing about&#8211;an out-of-the-box means of being \u201cJesus in the Neighborhood.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The road that Brownsville Church of the Brethren sits on is Maryland Route 67. The community has had concerns regarding safety on this road for many years, particularly as it regards the elementary school that is on the road about a mile south of the church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hearing community and church member concerns, I contacted Washington County (Md.) government to set up a town hall meeting, to be hosted at the church. The county government worked with the church to set up the meeting and ensured state officials also were present. The church worked to get the word out in the community and we were able to host well over 100 community members at the meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The meeting was reported in the newspaper, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldmailmedia.com\/story\/news\/local\/2023\/06\/29\/pure-aggression-citizens-demand-officials-address-unsafe-driving-on-md-67citizens-demand-officials-a\/70364213007\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"www.heraldmailmedia.com\/story\/news\/local\/2023\/06\/29\/pure-aggression-citizens-demand-officials-address-unsafe-driving-on-md-67citizens-demand-officials-a\/70364213007\">www.heraldmailmedia.com\/story\/news\/local\/2023\/06\/29\/pure-aggression-citizens-demand-officials-address-unsafe-driving-on-md-67citizens-demand-officials-a\/70364213007<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is just one way we are working to address the needs of our community and show Jesus\u2019 love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&#8212; Calvin Park is pastor of Brownsville Church of the Brethren in Knoxville, Md.<\/em><\/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\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/beth-sollenberger-to-retire\/\">Beth Sollenberger to retire from leadership role in Atlantic Southeast District<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/bvs-unit-339-begins-service\/\">Brethren Volunteer Service Unit 339 begins service<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/global-food-initiative-grants-6\/\">Global Food Initiative grants support ministries of congregations in Florida, Maryland, and Pennsylvania<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/edf-grants-support-rebuilding-2\/\">EDF grants support rebuilding in North Carolina and Western Maryland, aid Ukraine, Gaza and the West Bank, the DRC, Nigeria, Venezuela, Cuba<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/health-care-education-scholarships\/\">Health Care Education Scholarships are awarded to 10 recipients<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Brownsville Church of the Brethren we recently found a way to be good neighbors that we\u2019re excited about and thought other churches might be interested in hearing about&#8211;an out-of-the-box means of being \u201cJesus in the Neighborhood.\u201d<\/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":[824,2768,3,2767,2220,2766],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-22373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-the-brethren-newsline","tag-brownsville-church-of-the-brethren","tag-calvin-park","tag-church-of-the-brethren","tag-driving-conditions","tag-jesus-in-the-neighborhood-stories-from-congregations","tag-road-safety"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22373","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=22373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22374,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22373\/revisions\/22374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22373"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=22373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}