{"id":8114,"date":"2025-12-22T17:25:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T22:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/?p=8114"},"modified":"2025-12-22T17:32:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T22:32:05","slug":"20251224-christmas-eve-7pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/?p=8114","title":{"rendered":"20251224 &#8211; Christmas Eve Service &#8211; 7PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> A quiet reflective service with songs and spoken word<br \/>\nto draw us near to the joy and wonder of Christ&#8217;s birth<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Christmas Presence:  How do we keep Christmas alive all year long?<br \/>\n<small> <em>Spoiler: Maybe it already is alive, living within all of us,<br \/>\nand we need only but recognize it.<\/em><br \/>\nGod Bless Us Everyone! <\/small><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/ChristmasEve.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><strong> Archived Sunday Services available on YouTube!<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@MCCNoVA25\"> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@MCCNoVA25<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><!-- <em><strong>======================\nBring a Friend to Church!\n======================<\/strong><\/em>\n\n<hr>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nThe Metropolitan Community Church  of Northern Virginia<br \/>\n10383 Democracy Lane<br \/>\nFairfax, VA 22030<\/strong><br \/>\nWe are grateful for your continued generosity as we move forward into a future with deep needs and boundless possibilities for our community! <br \/>\nBlessings and Thank You! <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/ChurchSign.jpg\"><\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quiet reflective service with songs and spoken word to draw us near to the joy and wonder of Christ&#8217;s birth Christmas Presence: How do we keep Christmas alive all year long? Spoiler: Maybe it already is alive, living within &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/?p=8114\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-special-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8114"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8117,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8114\/revisions\/8117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}