{"id":35905,"date":"2019-12-18T07:54:43","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T13:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/?p=35905"},"modified":"2019-12-29T13:35:26","modified_gmt":"2019-12-29T19:35:26","slug":"multicultural-christmas-program-celbrates-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/2019\/12\/18\/multicultural-christmas-program-celbrates-the-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Multicultural Christmas Program Celebrates the Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nPictured above: Nigeria was represented by the Ojo and Omosebi families<\/em><\/p>\n

Submitted by: Donna Leming |<\/p>\n

A multicultural Christmas program was held at the Seventh-day Adventist church on Saturday December 7, 2019. Each group sang a Christmas Carol and shared how they celebrated the birth of Jesus and traditions in their country.<\/p>\n

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\n<\/br>Czech Republic was represented by Wallace Mateika singing and accompanied on the piano by his wife Ann.
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\nRepresenting Filipino Christmas traditions were the Pinoys of Swan River. <\/em><\/p>\n

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Dayanah Mazo sang her favorite carol \u201cAway In A Manger\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/div>

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Samuel Ojo played and sang “The First Noel”<\/em><\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

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\nUkrainian Orthodox members represented the Ukraine<\/p>\n

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\nPastor Roy Jamieson
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\nas seen through the eyes
\nof one of the Wise Men
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\n<\/br>After the program a vegetarian supper and fellowship was enjoyed by our community friends and family.<\/p>\n

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All the proceeds from the free will offering will be donated to the Christmas Cheer Board. Thank you to all who participated and attended the program.<\/p>\n

Let Jesus be the reason we celebrate Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pictured above: Nigeria was represented by the Ojo and Omosebi families Submitted by: Donna Leming | A multicultural Christmas program was held at the Seventh-day Adventist church on Saturday December 7, 2019. Each group sang a Christmas Carol and shared how they celebrated the birth of Jesus and traditions in their country. Czech Republic was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[24,13,16],"class_list":["post-35905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local","tag-arts-entertainment","tag-coverage","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}