{"id":1756,"date":"2015-11-06T22:17:51","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T20:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1756"},"modified":"2015-12-22T12:50:26","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T10:50:26","slug":"operation-christmas-child-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/11\/operation-christmas-child-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Operation Christmas Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are planning to once again support Operation Christmas Child&#8217;s Shoebox Appeal.<strong> \u00a0<\/strong>Please can you begin to gather items of stationery, toys, toiletries, sweets (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not chocolate<\/span>) and<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>other suitable small personal items ready to bring to church <strong>on the first three Sundays in November<\/strong> (a list of suitable items can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samaritans-purse.org.uk\">www.samaritans-purse.org.uk<\/a> or at the back of church) when we hope to be able to pack a good number of shoeboxes to send around the world to make a difference to children&#8217;s lives. \u00a0We have kindly had a donation of some 50 empty shoeboxes and it would be great to fill them all! If you don&#8217;t have a shoebox then please bring your gifts to church and we will pack them for you.<\/p>\n<p>It costs just \u00a33 to transport each gift box across the world so if you can &#8211; please include \u00a33 towards this.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you on behalf of Operation Christmas Child and all the happy children you will help this Christmas.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Christmas-Child.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload alignright wp-image-1764 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Christmas-Child-150x150.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Christmas-Child-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas Child\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27150%27%20height%3D%27150%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20150%20150%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27150%27%20height%3D%27150%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Christmas-Child-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Christmas-Child-210x210.jpg 210w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Watch a short film about the excellent work of this charity<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T4-DCslNqh4?list=PLOTi31YrZpi5NgkEKjqN4zApKFXSuYgQq\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are planning to once again support Operation Christmas Child&#8217;s Shoebox Appeal. \u00a0Please can you begin to gather items of stationery, toys, toiletries, sweets (not chocolate) and\u00a0other suitable small personal items ready to bring to church on the first three Sundays in November (a list of suitable items can be found at www.samaritans-purse.org.uk or at the back of church) when we hope to be able to pack a good number of shoeboxes to send around the world to make a difference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magazine","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1756"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1767,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions\/1767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}