206 sleeping bags line CityDeck as #GreenBay church spotlights #homelessness
by Eric Morris,FOX11News
Sun, November 8, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Updated Mon, November 9, 2026
#GreenBayWI -- "A Green Bay church spent Sunday morning drawing awareness to homelessness in the city. Remnant Church laid 206 sleeping bags on Green Bay's CityDeck.
"We started laying them out this morning and like that's a lot. Like that's a lot. It's one thing to look at the number, it's one thing to hear a news story, it's one thing to drive by St. John's Park and say, oh, there's a bunch of people. It's a whole other thing to say end to end, side to side, what does that number look like? So, it's too big to ignore," said Pastor Scott Eastman.
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"All 206 bags will be donated to local organizations to distribute. The display also resonated with people who just happened to come across it.
When one woman was walking down CityDeck and saw the 206 sleeping bags, she asked what was going on. When she learned, she decided to add to the donation pile by bringing ten more sleeping bags and an additional bag of hand warmers.
Eastman says the work to help the unhoused can't stop here. He believes one of the most important things is to have conversations.
" 'I don't know how you could ever hear a story and just say 'tough luck', right. We have to stop not asking questions. We have to stop ignoring. We need to start asking questions to treat people like human beings,' said Eastman.
"For Eastman, each bag represents not just a human being, but a story that needs to be shared."
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