Remnant Church Lays Out 206 Sleeping Bags
A display on Green Bay's City Deck was staged to draw attention to homelessness in the city.
Updated on Nov. 9, 2026 in Philanthropy
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Remnant Church laid out 206 sleeping bags on Green Bay's City Deck on Sunday morning to draw awareness to homelessness in the city. All of the sleeping bags will be donated to local organizations.
Why it matters
Homelessness is normally spread out across parks and areas of the city during the summer, so the display was staged to show the scale of the issue in one place. The 206 figure is based on a point-in-time count conducted in July.
The 206 sleeping bags correspond to the figure from a July point-in-time count of homelessness in Green Bay. A passerby contributed 10 additional sleeping bags and one bag of hand warmers, and the source does not detail how donations will be divided among organizations.
The players
Remnant Church
Remnant Church is a Green Bay-area congregation that organized the sleeping bag display to raise awareness of homelessness in the city.
The details
Remnant Church placed the sleeping bags end to end and side to side across City Deck. A woman who saw the display added ten sleeping bags and a bag of hand warmers to the donation pile, and all items are to be distributed to local organizations.
Timeline
July: Point-in-time count of homeless individuals conducted in Green Bay.
Sunday morning, November 8, 2026: Sleeping bags laid out on City Deck.
January: Next point-in-time count scheduled.
Market Landscape
The display converts the July point-in-time count into a visible public installation rather than leaving the figure as a statistic in a report. It highlights how homelessness is typically dispersed across parks and neighborhoods in summer, making its scale harder to see.
Residents who want to help can contribute sleeping bags, warm clothing, or hand warmers to local organizations receiving the donations. The display shows that the need is concentrated enough to be visible in a single downtown location during the cold season.
The takeaway
Visible displays like this one can make a seasonal count of homelessness concrete for the public. Individuals can support the problem by donating cold-weather gear to local organizations before winter sets in.
What happens next
The next point-in-time count of homelessness is scheduled for January.
Further reading
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Source note: This article includes information reported by WLUK.
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