{"id":12289,"date":"2024-12-06T09:57:15","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T17:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/?p=12289"},"modified":"2024-12-25T07:25:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T15:25:01","slug":"christmas-at-memorial-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/christmas-at-memorial-2024","title":{"rendered":"Christmas at Memorial 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nk-awb \" ><\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/JesusJosephMary-and-Christmas.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3936 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/JesusJosephMary-and-Christmas.jpg?resize=300%2C214&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/JesusJosephMary-and-Christmas.jpg?resize=300%2C214&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/JesusJosephMary-and-Christmas.jpg?w=498&amp;ssl=1 498w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>WHAT CHRISTMAS IS REALLY ABOUT<\/h2>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Live Nativity<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #333399;\">Experience the story leading up to the birth of Jesus.\u00a0 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/live-nativity-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #333399;\">See more here.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Blue<\/span> Christmas Service, Dec 21 at 7 pm.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #333399;\">For some people, Christmas can be a sad time if family member have been lost, or events have occurred or are occurring during the Christmas season.\u00a0 December 21, being the longest night, doesn&#8217;t help.\u00a0 The purpose of this service is to help deal with that by reminding of the new life and hope that Jesus brings.\u00a0 If you are in that category, come to the service.\u00a0 Or come and support those in need. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Christmas Eve Service, 8 pm.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #333399;\">A time for the family to worship.\u00a0 <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='Usually refers to Memorial United Methodist Church of Clovis, CA.'>Memorial<\/abbr>&#8217;s bell choir, songs, and message will get you in the spirit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">December 29th Service at <span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 24px;\">11 am.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 24px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The fifth Sunday of a month is a combined <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='A combined service with elements of the separate English and Hmong language services.'>English\/Hmong service<\/abbr> at 11 am.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"nk-awb-wrap\" data-awb-type=\"color\" data-awb-image-background-size=\"cover\" data-awb-image-background-position=\"50% 50%\"><div class=\"nk-awb-overlay\" style=\"background-color: #dbfce2;\"><\/div><div  class=\"nk-awb-inner\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,28],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-what-happened-event-over","8":"category-christmas","9":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Christmas_wise_men.jpg?fit=259%2C194&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-29 23:10:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}