{"id":120401,"date":"2019-07-17T07:21:36","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T12:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=120401"},"modified":"2019-07-17T07:21:55","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T12:21:55","slug":"blessing-box-donation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2019\/07\/17\/blessing-box-donation\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessing Box donation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"545\" height=\"311\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Blessings-Box-donation-7-2019.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-120402\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Members of the Black Swamp Motorcycle Club recently partnered with St. Mark\u2019s Lutheran Church donating $100 to help with the cost of non-perishable food and personal hygiene items for St. Mark\u2019s Blessing Box program. The Blessings Box is located in Van Wert at the northwest corner of Washington and Sycamore streets in the church\u2019s parking lot. This community outreach helps families that may be struggling to make ends meet. Black Swamp Cruiser Club Chapter 6 is a family friendly motorcycle club located in the Van Wert area and is part of the larger group, Cruiser Club USA. Goals of the club include donating time, money, or talents to others. This past year, the club donated items to the Blessings Box and learned how many people have been helped through partnering with St. Mark\u2019s and its outreach program. For more information, contact the church office at 419.238.6336 , visit the church\u2019s website,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stmarkslutheranvw.com\/\">www.stmarkslutheranvw.com<\/a>, or \u201clike\u201d the church on Facebook. Shown are Pastor Will Haggis and Mark Schaberg of St. Mark&#8217;s with Black Swamp Motorcycle Club members.\u00a0<\/strong><em>photo\u00a0provided<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Black Swamp Motorcycle Club recently partnered with St. Mark\u2019s Lutheran Church donating $100 to help with the cost of non-perishable food and personal hygiene items for St. Mark\u2019s Blessing Box program. The Blessings Box is located in Van Wert at the northwest corner of Washington and Sycamore streets in the church\u2019s parking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-09 02:08:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}