{"id":1026,"date":"2013-11-18T06:53:05","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T11:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bethhaven.com\/home\/?p=1026"},"modified":"2013-12-14T22:07:17","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T03:07:17","slug":"operation-christmas-child-national-collection-week-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethhaven.com\/home\/operation-christmas-child-national-collection-week-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cOperation Christmas Child\u201d National Collection Week Begins!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In partnership with Samaritan\u2019s Purse, Beth Haven Christian School is participating in the 2013 &#8220;Operation Christmas Child&#8221; project with the shoebox drive beginning on Monday, November 18th and running through November 25th&#8230;<!--more--><br \/>\n[youtube=http:\/\/youtu.be\/293HNjcFN-w&amp;rel=0]<\/p>\n<h4>Purpose<\/h4>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1028\" style=\"margin: 10px\" alt=\"Christmas Child120x120\" src=\"https:\/\/bethhaven.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Christmas-Child120x120.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/>The world\u2019s largest Christmas project of its kind, Operation Christmas Child uses gift-filled shoeboxes to demonstrate God\u2019s love in a tangible way to needy children around the world.<\/p>\n<h4>History<\/h4>\n<p>Since 1993, the Samaritan\u2019s Purse project Operation Christmas Child has collected and delivered more than <strong>100 million<\/strong> gift-filled shoeboxes to children in more than 100 countries. Celebrating its <strong>20th anniversary<\/strong>, Operation Christmas Child expects to collect another <strong>9.8 million shoebox gifts in 2013<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h4>Process<\/h4>\n<p>Individuals, families and groups fill empty shoeboxes with gifts of toys, school supplies, hygiene items and notes of encouragement. During <strong>National Collection Week, Nov. 18-25, 2013<\/strong>, Samaritan\u2019s Purse will collect the gift-filled shoeboxes at more than 3,500 drop-off sites in all 50 states and Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n<p>After the boxes are prepared for overseas shipment at eight major processing centers across the United States\u2014Atlanta; Boone, N.C.; Charlotte; Dallas; Denver; Honolulu; Minneapolis; and Orange County, Calif.\u2014Samaritan\u2019s Purse and its partners will deliver the gifts to children in more than 100 countries on six continents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In partnership with Samaritan\u2019s Purse, Beth Haven Christian School is participating in the 2013 &#8220;Operation Christmas Child&#8221; project with the &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1027,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-home","category-student-life-news","latest_post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethhaven.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethhaven.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethhaven.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethhaven.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethhaven.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bethhaven.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethhaven.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethhaven.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethhaven.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethhaven.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}