{"id":24809,"date":"2025-11-24T14:35:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T19:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=24809"},"modified":"2026-01-08T07:33:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T12:33:56","slug":"operation-christmas-child-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=24809","title":{"rendered":"Operation Christmas Child Boxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24811\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_20251124_027492.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24811\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_20251124_027492-233x350.jpg\" alt=\"Operation Christmas Child Boxes\" width=\"233\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24811\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_20251124_027492-233x350.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_20251124_027492-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_20251124_027492-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_20251124_027492-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_20251124_027492.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24811\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Operation Christmas Child Boxes<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cathy is a big fan of Operation Christmas Child, which is a ministry of Samaritan\u2019s Purse, 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<p>Cathy set out to fill six boxes and as usual, ended up having enough things for seven. Actually, she was close to having eight boxes, but had a lot of a few things rather than a good assortment of things for that last box, so those things will be saved for next year.<\/p>\n<p>You can see <a href=\"?tag=operation-christmas-child\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">other Operation Christmas Child posts from prior years here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cathy is a big fan of Operation Christmas Child, which is a ministry of Samaritan\u2019s Purse, 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. Cathy set out to fill six boxes and as usual, ended &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=24809\">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\/24809"}],"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=24809"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24814,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24809\/revisions\/24814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}