{"id":418709,"date":"2026-07-31T00:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T00:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/418709\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T00:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T00:03:08","slug":"village-church-christmas-in-july-event-benefits-refugees-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/418709\/","title":{"rendered":"Village Church Christmas in July event benefits refugees \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Patrick Singer, Walter Lam of Alliance for African Assistance, and...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/RSF-L-VGC-ChristmasJuly1-08062026-01.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Patrick Singer, Walter Lam of Alliance for African Assistance, and Sandi Klingelhofer<br \/>\n(Courtesy of Village Church)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Chris Thibodeau (Courtesy of Village Church)\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/RSF-L-VGC-ChristmasJuly4-0806-2026.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Chris Thibodeau<br \/>\n(Courtesy of Village Church)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Barbara Haran and Walter Lam (Courtesy of Village Church)\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/RSF-L-VGC-ChristmasJuly2-0806-2026.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Barbara Haran and Walter Lam<br \/>\n(Courtesy of Village Church)\n<\/p>\n<p>Show Caption<\/p>\n<p>1 of 3<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Singer, Walter Lam of Alliance for African Assistance, and Sandi Klingelhofer<br \/>\n(Courtesy of Village Church)\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"icon-enlarge mng-gallery-fullscreen-expand\" aria-label=\"Expand fullscreen slideshow\">Expand<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Village Church in Rancho Santa Fe collected a truckload of donated items for its Christmas in July event to help refugee families newly arrived from Afghanistan and South Africa. On July 26, dozens of donors dropped off clothing, shoes, toys, furniture and kitchen wares to help support the ongoing work of the Alliance for African Assistance and its Safari Seconds Thrift Store in San Diego, a news release stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patrick Singer, Walter Lam of Alliance for African Assistance, and Sandi Klingelhofer (Courtesy of Village Church) Chris Thibodeau&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[6837,6838,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-418709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-rancho-santa-fe-review","tag-rancho-santa-fe-review-news","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}