{"id":54900,"date":"2025-12-08T03:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T03:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/54900\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T03:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T03:25:08","slug":"its-a-joy-annual-christmas-concert-supports-angel-tree-project-in-salisbury-sd-lehigh-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/54900\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It&#8217;s a joy&#8217;: Annual Christmas concert supports Angel Tree Project in Salisbury SD | Lehigh County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MACUNGIE, Pa. &#8211; Inside Jerusalem Salisbury Church in Salisbury Township, the sounds of the Macungie Band filled the air on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>It was the third annual Christmas concert.<\/p>\n<p>Parish Coordinator Linda Held said the goal is to support the Angel Tree Project.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Which is to help students in the Salisbury School District who have some food insecurities, etc,&#8221; said Held.<\/p>\n<p>Band director Mike Moran said the concert features Christmas music of all kinds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We do a lot of familiar work, a lot of holiday selections that most people would recognize- some Broadway, some movie themes,&#8221; said Moran.<\/p>\n<p>It is a concert that supports the community one beat at a time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a joy to bring joy to so many people who really enjoy what we do and how well we do it,&#8221; said Moran.<\/p>\n<p>Held said proceeds are used to buy grocery store gift cards that go out to families in need.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It kind of goes on throughout the whole school year. We&#8217;re in touch with the social worker of the school and they receive them and disperse them as they need to be dispersed,&#8221; said Held. &#8220;It&#8217;s been overwhelming the thank yous that we get back from the school for our participation as a church community and being able to help them out,&#8221; said Held.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MACUNGIE, Pa. &#8211; Inside Jerusalem Salisbury Church in Salisbury Township, the sounds of the Macungie Band filled the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,433],"class_list":["post-54900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-lehigh-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}