{"id":5315,"date":"2023-12-22T17:32:29","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T17:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gabriels-house.org\/?p=5315"},"modified":"2023-12-22T17:35:26","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T17:35:26","slug":"christmas-open-house-warmed-hearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gabriels-house.org\/christmas-open-house-warmed-hearts\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Open House Warmed Hearts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s Christmas Open House was a warm and festive time, uniting donors, volunteers, mentors, residents, past residents, families of residents, and special guests interested in learning more about Gabriel\u2019s House. Our program opened with a skit from the residents called, A Gift for Baby Jesus. Then one of our young adult residents sang \u201cMary Did you Know?\u201d and the children joined in to sing more Christmas carols. Pastor Sam shared an encouraging message to the residents and all our guests. Of course, we had delicious holiday foods\u2014this year prepared by our own Chef Tina! We also saw our residents open one of their gifts, which were beautiful blankets just in time for winter. Finally, Santa and Mrs. Claus arrived with their helpers to pass out gifts while we sang more carols. It was a very special night of celebrating the greatest gift of all, Jesus Christ.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Thank you to everyone who generously gave to provide our women and children with such a special holiday celebration. From all of us at Gabriel\u2019s House, Merry Christmas to you and yours!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s Christmas Open House was a warm and festive time, uniting donors, volunteers, mentors, residents, past residents, families of residents, and special guests interested in learning more about Gabriel\u2019s House. Our program opened with a skit from the residents called, A Gift for Baby Jesus. Then one of our young adult residents sang \u201cMary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gabriels-house.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gabriels-house.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gabriels-house.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gabriels-house.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gabriels-house.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gabriels-house.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5317,"href":"https:\/\/gabriels-house.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5315\/revisions\/5317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gabriels-house.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gabriels-house.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gabriels-house.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gabriels-house.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}