{"id":9517,"date":"2026-10-12T23:28:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T03:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stjohn-frederick.org\/?post_type=mec-events&#038;p=9517"},"modified":"2026-10-30T18:58:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T22:58:55","slug":"st-joseph-holiday-food-drive-and-angel-tag-program","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/stjohn-frederick.org\/en\/events\/st-joseph-holiday-food-drive-and-angel-tag-program\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Joseph Holiday Food Drive and Angel Tag Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"p1\">It&#8217;s that time of year already! The St. Joseph Outreach Committee is getting ready for the <strong>2026 Holiday Food Drive and Angel Tag Program<\/strong>, and we need your help! These programs serve those in need within our local high school feeder pattern, The Arc of Frederick, Safe Harbor, Centro Hispano, along with elderly residents in Frederick County in need of assistance.<\/h4>\n<h4 class=\"p1\">We hope you can continue to be as generous as you have in the past in helping to make the holidays a little brighter for those less fortunate. We are in need of donations as well as volunteers. <strong>If you prefer to make a monetary donation, please make checks payable to St. Joseph and indicate in the memo line either <i>Holiday Food Drive<\/i> or <i>Angel Tag Program<\/i>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4 class=\"p1\"><b>HOLIDAY FOOD DRIVE<br \/>\n<\/b>Our Food Drive is kicking off soon and we are again asking our parishioners to donate food for the holidays for both Thanksgiving and Christmas. We also need volunteers to pack, deliver, and assist with the pickup of meals. Please click the links below for details and to volunteer.<\/h4>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.signupgenius.com\/go\/60B0D4DADA929A13-65869944-volunteers#\/\" class=\"big-button bigblue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sign up to Volunteer for Holiday Food Drive<\/a>\n<h4 class=\"p1\"><b>ANGEL TAG PROGRAM<\/b><b><\/b><\/h4>\n<h4 class=\"p1\">Our annual Angel Tag program will begin soon, and we will once again be offering \u201cVirtual Angel Tags\u201d. \u00a0Please click the links below for details and to sign up to take a tag. Thank you for helping to make Christmas brighter for those in need!<\/h4>\n<h4 class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.signupgenius.com\/go\/4090548ACAC22A13-65372911-angel#\/\" class=\"big-button bigblue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Angel Tag Sign Up<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stjohn-frederick.org\/en\/events\/st-joseph-holiday-food-drive-and-angel-tag-program\/st-joseph-annual-holiday-food-drive-2026\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9518\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9518\" src=\"https:\/\/stjohn-frederick.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/St-Joseph-Annual-Holiday-Food-Drive-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"467\" height=\"604\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stjohn-frederick.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/St-Joseph-Annual-Holiday-Food-Drive-2026.jpg 467w, https:\/\/stjohn-frederick.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/St-Joseph-Annual-Holiday-Food-Drive-2026-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/stjohn-frederick.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/St-Joseph-Annual-Holiday-Food-Drive-2026-9x12.jpg 9w, https:\/\/stjohn-frederick.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/St-Joseph-Annual-Holiday-Food-Drive-2026-400x516.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 467px) 100vw, 467px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stjohn-frederick.org\/en\/events\/st-joseph-holiday-food-drive-and-angel-tag-program\/st-joseph-angel-tag-program-2026\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9519\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9519\" src=\"https:\/\/stjohn-frederick.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/St.-Joseph-Angel-Tag-Program-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"467\" height=\"604\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stjohn-frederick.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/St.-Joseph-Angel-Tag-Program-2026.jpg 467w, https:\/\/stjohn-frederick.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/St.-Joseph-Angel-Tag-Program-2026-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/stjohn-frederick.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/St.-Joseph-Angel-Tag-Program-2026-9x12.jpg 9w, https:\/\/stjohn-frederick.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/St.-Joseph-Angel-Tag-Program-2026-400x516.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 467px) 100vw, 467px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of year already! The St. Joseph Outreach Committee is getting ready for the 2026 Holiday Food Drive and Angel Tag Program, and we need your help! These programs serve those in need within our local high school feeder pattern, The Arc of Frederick, Safe Harbor, Centro Hispano, along with elderly residents in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6075,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[269],"mec_category":[],"class_list":["post-9517","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-happening-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn-frederick.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/9517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn-frederick.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn-frederick.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn-frederick.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn-frederick.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn-frederick.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn-frederick.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn-frederick.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9517"},{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn-frederick.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=9517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}