{"id":3567,"date":"2012-11-05T12:43:14","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T17:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/together-we-can-touch-a-childs-heart-this-christmas-3\/"},"modified":"2012-11-05T12:43:14","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T17:43:14","slug":"together-we-can-touch-a-childs-heart-this-christmas-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/together-we-can-touch-a-childs-heart-this-christmas-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Together we can touch a child&#8217;s heart this Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As the angel proclaimed to the shepherds of Bethlehem, \u201cDo not be afraid, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; He is Christ the Lord (Luke 2:10b-11, NIV).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Operation Christmas Child demonstrates God\u2019s love to impoverished children in a tangible way by partnering with churches worldwide to deliver gift-filled shoe boxes and the good news of Jesus Christ. Operation Christmas Child has brought hope to boys and girls in over 140 countries around the world.<\/p>\n<p>National Collection Week for Operation Christmas Child is November 12-19.\u00a0 Please contact me if you have any questions or if you would like to pack a shoe box for a child. I can provide you with a shoebox and the instructions for how to pack one. If you prefer to buy an item or two for a shoebox, please bring the items to me and I will combine items donated to fill shoeboxes.<\/p>\n<p>My home church, Trinity Worship Christian Fellowship (<a title=\"http:\/\/trinityworship.org\/\" href=\"http:\/\/trinityworship.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/trinityworship.org\/<\/a>), is a relay center for Operation Christmas Child. Just pack a shoebox and deliver it to me on or before Nov. 16 and I will bring it to Trinity to be forwarded on to a distribution center.<\/p>\n<p>Michele Wiltsie at m.wiltsie@hvcc.edu, 518 629-7146, BRN 225.<\/p>\n<p>Please visit Operation Christmas Child\u2019s website (<a title=\"http:\/\/www.samaritanspurse.org\/index.php\/occ\" href=\"http:\/\/www.samaritanspurse.org\/index.php\/occ\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.samaritanspurse.org\/index.php\/occ<\/a>) for gift ideas and details on how to pack and track the shoeboxes. Operation Christmas Child is a project of Samaritan\u2019s Purse, Franklin Graham, President.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your ministry and may God Bless you this Thanksgiving and Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Mon, 05 Nov 2012 12:43:14 +0000 by\u00a0m.wiltsie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; As the angel proclaimed to the shepherds of Bethlehem, \u201cDo not be afraid, I bring you good news of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classifieds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}