{"id":294986,"date":"2026-09-27T11:32:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T11:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/294986\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T11:32:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T11:32:37","slug":"bethlehem-center-faces-closure-due-to-dwindling-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/294986\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethlehem Center faces closure due to dwindling funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">JACKSON, Miss. (<a data-ylk=\"slk:WJTV;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wjtv.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">WJTV<\/a>) &#8211; A beloved childcare center in Jackson has provided quality care to Jackson&#8217;s children for generations. Due to dwindling funds, the Bethlehem Center could face closure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;When they cut all the child care vouchers for children, some parents, low income parents, homeless and different teenagers, they get vouchers from from the State Department and the vouchers started getting cut,&#8221; said Shornita Shavers, the assistant director at the Bethlehem Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">They once received funding from various Methodist churches, but now they&#8217;re left with no choice to start a <a data-ylk=\"slk:GoFundMe;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/help-bethlehem-center-reach-more-lives\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">GoFundMe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Our funds are down, bills need to be paid, staff needs to be paid. And she started a GoFundMe, might have been Monday. She started it to try to pick us up while we&#8217;re down,&#8221; said Shavers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">[sailthru_widget name=&#8221;Sailthru Widget Block&#8221; sailthru_list=&#8221;Daily News&#8221; title=&#8221;Daily News&#8221;] Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJTV.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wjtv.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJTV.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) &#8211; A beloved childcare center in Jackson has provided quality care to Jackson&#8217;s children for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,7791,155,154,122043,122042],"class_list":["post-294986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-center","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-shornita-shavers","tag-wjtv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}