{"id":35521,"date":"2025-10-28T20:07:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T02:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/?p=35521"},"modified":"2025-11-29T11:55:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T18:55:25","slug":"help-with-operation-christmas-cheer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/help-with-operation-christmas-cheer\/","title":{"rendered":"Help with Operation Christmas Cheer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our 21st Annual Operation Christmas Cheer<\/a> campaign is underway and we can use your help.<\/p>\n

What is Operation Christmas Cheer? It is a simple community effort to send Christmas cards to those shut-in, ill, maybe a little sad or just having a hard time this Christmas. It never fails to cheer weary hearts and for some, well, it makes their Christmas.<\/p>\n

There are two way to help with this effort.<\/p>\n

First, submit a name<\/a> of someone you know who needs Christmas cards. There are no qualifications to sign up someone and, of course, no cost involved. Just tell us a name and an address and the cards will go out.<\/p>\n

Second, if you want to receive the list when it is ready, please sign up to receive it so you can send cards to those on our list. Sign-up here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And that’s it. Simple love. That’s all we really want for Christmas anyway, isn’t it?<\/p>\n

This grand tradition started more than two decades ago when folks on the Merry Forums found out about a situation where just simple good cheer was needed. We rallied together and sent dozen of Christmas cards to one person under medical duress one Christmas.<\/p>\n

The effort paid off handsomely.<\/p>\n

We figured, if we could do this for one person, what was stopping us from helping several in this way?<\/p>\n

So we did it. And we did it again. And we’ve continued now on this cheery mission for 21 consecutive years.<\/p>\n

My Mom received these cards at a time when she could no long send out Christmas cards. It meant the world to her to receive them. That seems to be the universal response.<\/p>\n

Do your heart some good by participating in this simple effort.<\/p>\n

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Our 21st Annual Operation Christmas Cheer campaign is underway and we can use your help. What is Operation Christmas Cheer? It is a simple community effort to send Christmas cards to those shut-in, ill, maybe a little sad or just having a hard time this Christmas. It never fails to cheer weary hearts and for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"Help with Operation Christmas Cheer","_seopress_titles_desc":"Operation Christmas Cheer is an effort to help the elderly, the sick or the downtrodden to have a little love this Christmas through Christmas cards. We need your help.","_seopress_robots_index":"","iawp_total_views":109,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35526,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35521\/revisions\/35526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}