{"id":1834,"date":"2015-12-25T11:09:13","date_gmt":"2015-12-25T17:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hopeold.tadtime.dev\/?p=1785"},"modified":"2015-12-25T11:09:13","modified_gmt":"2015-12-25T17:09:13","slug":"122515-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hopeministries.co\/122515-2\/","title":{"rendered":"12\/25\/15"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0Merry Christmas to everyone.\u00a0 Jesus is the reason for the season.\u00a0 I just talked to Julius, my Tanzanian Assistant, the team, and staff and everyone is giggling and laughing and are having a great Christmas day.\u00a0 It sounds like they were having so much fun having a water fight.\u00a0 They said Mama Lynn went and hid in her room.\u00a0 I am so excited to share the photos they sent to me. \"46c2eb75674f927b4bd2041373238340\"<\/p>\n

First I need to thank my Tanzanian Assistant Julius Solomon, for all he does to help with the operation of Hope Ministries in Tanzania.\u00a0 I could not do this without him.\u00a0 Here he is cutting up the beef, that will be cooked for the special Christmas meal for all the children and staff at Light in Africa.\u00a0 He is such a hard worker and my teams love him.\u00a0 God bless you Julius at this special season and I thank God daily for putting you into my life.\u00a0 He shares his love for God with our teams and the people we help.<\/p>\n

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Then Mama Lynn surprised the team with a special Christmas Dinner.\u00a0 I want to thank they special young ladies for all they are doing to help these special little children of God.\u00a0 Thanks for your loving and caring hearts.<\/p>\n

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\"b5d3c6464eef239b9ce5d467e3ea34fd\"\u00a0Next I want to thank my grandkids, Taylor, Carter, Raigan, Maggie, Hannah, Drew and Chace for getting these special little kids a Christmas Present.\u00a0\u00a0My grandkids\u00a0spent the day wrapping 200 Christmas presents for each of the kids at Light in Africa.\u00a0 They were so excited.\u00a0 When I was talking to Julius today, I could hearing a lot of giggling and laughing because the children\u00a0were so happy.\u00a0\u00a0You guys\u00a0are awesome and you provided something very special for these children!\u00a0 Love you all so much!<\/p>\n

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Here the team is helping the children all open up their Christmas presents.\u00a0 It was exciting for them to see these kids get some gifts.\u00a0\u00a0All the children\u00a0cleaned up and wore a special Christmas outfit for this special day.<\/p>\n

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\"29712e76fbeeb8417f256874de4b0e34\"All of the staff and children at Light in Africa Children’s home want to thank all of the donors from Hope Ministries, who made this all possible.\u00a0 As we say in Swahili:\u00a0 Mungu akubariki sana (May God bless you very much) and Nakupenda sana (We love you very much)! \u00a0Know that you all provided these children with a very special Christmas.\u00a0 May God provide you all blessings during this special season and we are wishing you many blessings in 2016.\u00a0 A special thanks from Hope Ministries Board of Directors and a very special thanks from me.\u00a0 Love you all so much !\u00a0 Gayle<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Merry Christmas to everyone.\u00a0 Jesus is the reason for the season.\u00a0 I just talked to Julius, my Tanzanian Assistant, the team, and staff and everyone is giggling and laughing and are having a great Christmas day.\u00a0 It sounds like they were having so much fun having a water fight.\u00a0 They said Mama Lynn went and … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1840,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopeministries.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopeministries.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopeministries.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopeministries.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopeministries.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hopeministries.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopeministries.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopeministries.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopeministries.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopeministries.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}