{"id":23528,"date":"2013-08-19T13:31:51","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T20:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/story-of-homeless-children-to-be-shared-at-lifetree-cafe\/"},"modified":"2013-08-19T13:31:51","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T20:31:51","slug":"story-of-homeless-children-to-be-shared-at-lifetree-cafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/story-of-homeless-children-to-be-shared-at-lifetree-cafe\/","title":{"rendered":"Story of homeless children to be shared at Lifetree Caf\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>The impact of homelessness on children will be explored at Lifetree Caf\u00e9 at 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 2.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The program, titled &#8220;Children With No Place to Call Home: Helping Kids in Crisis,&#8221; features a filmed visit with homeless children and their parents, as well as with agency workers who assist homeless children.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>An estimated one in 50 children is homeless. Approximately 40 percent of those children are 5 years old or younger.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&#8220;We see children who have lived in a car or outside, or who have spent time living from shelter to shelter, or hotel to hotel,&#8221; says Jennifer Herrera, executive director of Colfax Community Network, a homeless-outreach agency. &#8220;It makes me angry because we can do better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Admission to the 60-minute event is free. Snacks and beverages are available. Lifetree Caf\u00e9 is located at Community Room, First Christian Church, 11717 240th St SE, Kent.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Lifetree Caf\u00e9 is a place where people gather for conversation on life and faith in a casual coffeehouse-type setting. For questions about Lifetree may be directed to Bob Brooks at 206-653-6532 or pastorbob@kentdisciples.org. More information is available at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lifetreecafe.com\/\">lifetreecafe.com<\/a>.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The impact of homelessness on children will be explored at Lifetree Caf\u00e9 at 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-23528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23528"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=23528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}