{"id":24170,"date":"2024-11-17T10:43:18","date_gmt":"2024-11-17T15:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=24170"},"modified":"2024-12-16T16:27:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T21:27:15","slug":"operation-christmas-child-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=24170","title":{"rendered":"Operation Christmas Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24172\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/img_20241117_021274.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24172\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/img_20241117_021274-233x350.jpg\" alt=\"Cathy with Operation Christmas Child Boxes\" width=\"233\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/img_20241117_021274-233x350.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/img_20241117_021274-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/img_20241117_021274-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/img_20241117_021274-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/img_20241117_021274.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24172\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cathy with Operation Christmas Child Boxes<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When Dorothy was little, Cathy would help her and Amy, who lived next door, put together boxes for Operation Christmas Child every year. They would fill them for girls the same age as Dorothy and Amy. Dorothy and Amy are grown and Amy doesn&#8217;t live next door any more (we both moved in different directions) but Cathy still puts together some number of boxes. She&#8217;s done as few as two and as many as 12. She generally plans to fill six. As you can see here, her six turned into eight, which is not at all unusual. She had bought one extra box, knowing she often goes over, but then took an empty box from church because she had enough things for one more.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, Cathy is a big fan of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samaritanspurse.org\/what-we-do\/operation-christmas-child\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Operation Christmas Child<\/a>, which is a ministry of <a href=\"https:\/\/samaritanspurse.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Samaritan&#8217;s Purse<\/a>, an organization founded in 1970 by Robert Pierce (who also one of the founders of World Vision International) and with Franklin Graham, son of Billy Graham as president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Dorothy was little, Cathy would help her and Amy, who lived next door, put together boxes for Operation Christmas Child every year. They would fill them for girls the same age as Dorothy and Amy. Dorothy and Amy are grown and Amy doesn&#8217;t live next door any more (we both moved in different directions) &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=24170\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[287,285,2165],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24170"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24176,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24170\/revisions\/24176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}