{"id":16802,"date":"2017-12-20T18:00:14","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T02:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/?p=16802"},"modified":"2018-01-03T12:01:08","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T20:01:08","slug":"undocumented-low-income-residents-in-ellensburg-receive-jfon-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/undocumented-low-income-residents-in-ellensburg-receive-jfon-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Undocumented, low-income residents in Ellensburg receive JFON support"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A woman with young children strolls through Shady Acres Mobile Home Park. Shady Acres’ land was recently sold by the county to make spaces for its rodeo in Ellensburg, Wash. displacing low-income residents.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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By Pastor Jen Stuart<\/strong> | Photos by Rob Fraser<\/strong><\/p>\n

It all started with Shady Acres Mobile Home Park<\/strong><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

Although we have a Hispanic Apostolica congregation that meets in our building, we had not spent a whole lot of time getting to know this congregation until we found out that our county commissioners were closing the mobile home park that many of them live in<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n

Shady Acres Mobile Home Park<\/strong><\/span> is situated next to the fairgrounds. Our commissioners sought to buy it so that we would have more parking for the annual Ellensburg Rodeo. The commissioners thought that no one would notice taking away low-income housing in a city with a 100% occupancy rate and no plans for low-income housing<\/strong><\/span>. They were wrong. Although we lost that particular fight to the County we gained new friends.<\/p>\n

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Once you take Jesus seriously<\/strong><\/span> and start thinking of your neighbors as\u2026well\u2026your neighbors, then what they care about becomes important to you as well. We learned many things from our new Latino friends.<\/p>\n