{"id":11581,"date":"2020-02-21T10:54:07","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T16:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=11581"},"modified":"2020-02-21T10:54:08","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T16:54:08","slug":"sunnybrook-hosts-night-to-shine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/11581","title":{"rendered":"Sunnybrook hosts ‘Night to Shine’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by Hailey Barrus\u2013<\/strong> On February 8, Sunnybrook Community Church hosted its annual Tim Tebow\u2019s Night to Shine, giving Morningside students the opportunity to volunteer as \u2018buddies\u2019 for the special needs prom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo by Lindsay Williams<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

There\nwere dozens of Morningside students that had the opportunity to be part of this\nspecial night, including the men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball teams. They volunteered\ntheir time dressing in prom attire and taking their buddies out for a night to\nremember. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Morningside\njunior, Kenny Osten, had the opportunity to be a dancing buddy during the event\nand said the night changed his life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis\nis such a special night, to be able to shed light on the fact that we are all\nwonderfully made, and give these individuals the spotlight they deserve is\nsomething bigger than me, and bigger than Morningside. I felt so lucky to be a\npart of it,\u201d Osten said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nnight included a dance party, hair and make-up stations, limo rides, photographers,\ndinner, and karaoke. This is the third year Sunnybrook has been able to host\nthis event, and every year the turnout is bigger than the year prior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trey\nBrown, junior basketball player, said \u201cThis is my second year being able to be\na buddy at night to shine, and it has always been so fun. My night was\nbeautiful, and we danced the night away. For me it was more than going with my\nfriends as a team building experience, this was more than basketball, more than\njust going to church.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u201cTo be able to make these people feel normal\nin a world where they are constantly looked down on, is nothing less than\namazing,\u201d Brown continued. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Night\nto Shine hosted nearly 300 prom dates, and had over 400 volunteers that brought\nthe night together. Sunnybrook was one of only 300 other churches throughout\nthe country to participate in this event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Hailey Barrus\u2013 On February 8, Sunnybrook Community Church hosted its annual Tim Tebow\u2019s Night to Shine, giving Morningside students the opportunity to volunteer as \u2018buddies\u2019 for the special needs prom. There were dozens of Morningside students that had the opportunity to be part of this special night, including the men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball teams….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":11582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11583,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11581\/revisions\/11583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}