{"id":26307,"date":"2025-12-17T22:41:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T22:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=26307"},"modified":"2025-12-17T22:44:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T22:44:28","slug":"cds-responds-in-washington-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2025\/cds-responds-in-washington-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Children\u2019s Disaster Services responds to flooding in western Washington State"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By Carolyn Neher<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Children\u2019s Disaster Services (CDS), a program of Brethren Disaster Ministries, has deployed to western Washington State following catastrophic atmospheric river flooding that began on Dec. 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CDS is partnering with Child Life Disaster Relief and Save the Children to serve children in shelters where there is need, providing a calm, safe, and healing environment for children whose lives have been upended by the rising waters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This weather event brought heavy rainfall, causing rivers such as the Skagit, Snohomish, and Nooksack to reach record levels. Up to 100,000 residents were under evacuation orders in areas like Pierce, Snohomish, and Skagit counties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Find out more about CDS and its work to serve children and families affected by disaster at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethren.org\/cds\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"www.brethren.org\/cds\">www.brethren.org\/cds<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Support this response financially at <a href=\"https:\/\/churchofthebrethren.givingfuel.com\/all-ministries?registrants.fund=%3EChildren%27s%20Disaster%20Services%5e\">https:\/\/churchofthebrethren.givingfuel.com\/all-ministries?registrants.fund=%3EChildren%27s%20Disaster%20Services%5e<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&#8212; Carolyn Neher is associate director of Children\u2019s Disaster Services.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">#MissionAndMinistryBoard #StrategicPlan #RacialJustice #LoveOurNeighbors #Discipleship #NewTestamentGiving<\/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\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"680\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/CDSFacebook-600px.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/CDSFacebook-600px.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/CDSFacebook-600px-265x300.jpg 265w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/CDSFacebook-600px-560x635.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>A Children&#8217;s Disaster Services Facebook post requests prayer for the children and families the CDS volunteers are serving in western Washington State who are displaced by flooding. Photo: Wikimedia, public domain<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/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\/brethren-volunteer-service-unit-340\/\">Brethren Volunteer Service Unit 340 completes orientation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/la-unidad-340-del-bvs\/\">La Unidad 340 del Servicio Voluntario de los Hermanos completa la orientaci\u00f3n.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/inite-sevis-volonte-fre-yo-340\/\">Inite S\u00e8vis Volont\u00e8 Fr\u00e8 yo 340 fini oryantasyon an<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/pastors-manual-in-creole-french\/\">New Pastor\u2019s Manual in Haitian Creole and French to be used in Haiti and Africa<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/nuevo-manual-para-pastores\/\">Nuevo manual para pastores en criollo haitiano y franc\u00e9s para ser utilizado en Hait\u00ed y \u00c1frica.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children\u2019s Disaster Services (CDS), a program of Brethren Disaster Ministries, has deployed to western Washington State following catastrophic atmospheric river flooding that began on Dec. 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26308,"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":"yes","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1703],"tags":[1252,456,2693,1253,1758,457,2285,2345,2487,3555,2195],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-26307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church-of-the-brethren-newsline","tag-bdm","tag-brethren-disaster-ministries","tag-carolyn-neher","tag-cds","tag-children","tag-childrens-disaster-services","tag-disaster-response","tag-families","tag-flooding","tag-washington-state","tag-service"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26307","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=26307"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26310,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26307\/revisions\/26310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26307"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=26307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}