{"id":23334,"date":"2025-11-20T09:40:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T15:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=23334"},"modified":"2025-11-20T09:40:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T15:40:47","slug":"the-cross-to-host-christmas-open-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/23334-the-cross-to-host-christmas-open-house\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cross to Host Christmas Open House"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>A Christmas Open House will take place at the Cross at the Crossroads Welcome Center on Sunday, November 30.\u00a0 The public is invited to join in celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ from 2:00 -4:00pm.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the live Christmas music, Nativity Display, Make and Take Craft, and refreshments, visitors can walk the &#8220;Life of Jesus&#8221; pathway to see life-size statues of Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>Music is scheduled for:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">2:00pm &#8211; Hometown Christmas Choir<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">2:45pm &#8211; FACE Orchestra<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">3:30pm &#8211; Hillary Beard<\/p>\n<p>This is a free Family Event.<\/p>\n<p>The Cross is located at 1900 Pike Avenue in Effingham<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit CrossUSA.org, &#8220;TheCrossinEffingham&#8221; on Facebook, or call 217-821-5287.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Christmas Open House will take place at the Cross at the Crossroads Welcome Center on Sunday, November 30.\u00a0 The public is invited to join in celebrating the birth of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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