{"id":75869,"date":"2026-01-01T23:44:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T23:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/75869\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T23:44:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T23:44:41","slug":"erie-city-mission-offering-christmas-lunch-for-those-in-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/75869\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie City Mission offering Christmas lunch for those in need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">About a month after serving a Thanksgiving lunch, a local mission will be serving a Christmas meal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Erie City Mission will be hosting a Christmas lunch on Tuesday, Dec. 23, at 11:30 a.m. for around 350 people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\/digital-first\/digital-exclusive\/enjoy-breakfast-with-santa-at-north-warren-fire-dept-event\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Enjoy breakfast with Santa at North Warren Fire Dept. event;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\"> Enjoy breakfast with Santa at North Warren Fire Dept. event <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Guests will be served by staff and volunteers of the mission, reflecting the mission\u2019s goal of \u201cserving each guest with dignity and honor,\u201d according to the press release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Brian Johansson, the CEO of the mission, knows that the Christmas season can be difficult for many. \u201cThe Erie City Mission exists to be a family to those without one\u2014a place of hope and belonging,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This just goes to show that the mission sees its guests \u201cnot as visitors, but as members of the Mission family,\u201d according to the press release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"About a month after serving a Thanksgiving lunch, a local mission will be serving a Christmas meal. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[36560,136,329,138,137,39065],"class_list":["post-75869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-christmas-meal","tag-erie","tag-erie-city-mission","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-thanksgiving-lunch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75869","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=75869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}