{"id":404,"date":"2023-12-27T17:26:17","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T21:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mountainviewunited.ca\/?p=404"},"modified":"2024-01-12T11:19:07","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T15:19:07","slug":"activities-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainviewunited.ca\/index.php\/2023\/12\/27\/activities-in-december\/","title":{"rendered":"Activities in December"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"533\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainviewunited.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231227_190642-small-mitten-tree-edited.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-448\" style=\"width:233px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainviewunited.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231227_190642-small-mitten-tree-edited.jpg 533w, https:\/\/mountainviewunited.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231227_190642-small-mitten-tree-edited-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Advent season was ushered in with \u201cJingle Mingle\u201d &#8211; the trimming of the Memorial Angel Tree in the Sanctuary and the singing of Christmas carols in the church hall.&nbsp; The carol singing was followed by delicious sweets, tea, coffee, juice, and even a hot chocolate bar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UCW held a Holly Jolly Christmas Luncheon on December 11<sup>th<\/sup> to which the staff and all the ladies of the congregation were invited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A \u201cmitten tree\u201d was placed in the narthex for the purpose of collecting mittens and hats for those in need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainviewunited.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231227_190810-small-memorial-tree.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-449\" style=\"width:266px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainviewunited.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231227_190810-small-memorial-tree.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mountainviewunited.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231227_190810-small-memorial-tree-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Angels in memory of departed loved ones were placed on the Memorial Angel Tree on December 3<sup>rd<\/sup>, and Rev. Shaw and his family were welcomed to Mountain View.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>White Gift Sunday was held on December 10<sup>th<\/sup>.&nbsp;&nbsp; Food items were placed under the tree for donation to the Food Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Christmas Eve services were held at 10:30 AM and at 6:30 PM on December 24<sup>th<\/sup>, (<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/showcase\/10869198\">clic<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/showcase\/10869198\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">k here to watch the recording of the services<\/a>) heralding the good news of Jesus\u2019 birth.&nbsp; In Joyland (Sunday School), the children participated in a birthday party for Jesus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Advent season was ushered in with \u201cJingle Mingle\u201d &#8211; the trimming of the Memorial Angel Tree in the Sanctuary and the singing of Christmas carols in the church hall.&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainviewunited.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainviewunited.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainviewunited.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainviewunited.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainviewunited.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mountainviewunited.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"https:\/\/mountainviewunited.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainviewunited.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainviewunited.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainviewunited.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}