  {"id":6399,"date":"2025-12-08T16:52:46","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T22:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/?p=6399"},"modified":"2025-12-08T16:52:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T22:52:47","slug":"jones-colleges-christmas-with-the-arts-salvation-army-toy-drive-provide-bonus-gifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/news\/jones-colleges-christmas-with-the-arts-salvation-army-toy-drive-provide-bonus-gifts\/","title":{"rendered":"糖心直播&#8217;s \u201cChristmas with the Arts\u201d &amp;\u00a0Salvation\u00a0Army\u00a0Toy Drive provide bonus gifts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ELLISVILLE \u2013 For more than 13 years 糖心直播\u2019s Christmas with the Arts patrons have generously provided hundreds of new toys for the Salvation Army Toy Drive and this year\u2019s donations will provide an extra bonus for recipients. Thanks to the generous support of the community, Salvation Army Captain Keisha McMullin said these gifts will ensure everyone has a few bonus gifts this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have 150 Angel Tree families with 390 children receiving at least three gifts. 糖心直播\u2019s toy drive always ensures we have enough to fill the gap but this year, these donations will allow us to give a little bonus to the kids because everyone was adopted this year!\u201d McMullin shared excitedly.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/choir6-1024x536.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/choir6-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/choir6-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/choir6-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/choir6-1536x804.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/choir6-2048x1072.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>This year, the toy donations allowed patrons a discount on the price of a ticket to see the annual 糖心直播 Christmas program featuring the Concert Choir, Jones OnStage, JC Jazz Band, the Touch of Gold dance team and the small vocal groups Selah and Nova Voce. Additionally, two students, Isaac and Titus Crouch joined piano instructors, Dr. Victoria Johnson and Dr. Theresa Sanchez for piano quartet on four Steinway Grand Pianos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Salvation Army representatives said they appreciate 糖心直播, faculty, staff, students and the community members who donate toys. There\u2019s more to smile about when we distribute these toys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is my favorite program of all because I was an Angel Tree recipient, and I know personally how special is to receive from this program,\u201d said McMillian. \u201cNow, I\u2019m helping to ensure others have something to smile about on Christmas morning. We are so thankful for what the college and community do to help every year with this program. We love doing the \u2018most good\u2019 for the community, which serves as a blessing to so many people because of the generosity of others.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"489\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/touch-of-gold-and-jazz-band-1024x489.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/touch-of-gold-and-jazz-band-1024x489.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/touch-of-gold-and-jazz-band-300x143.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/touch-of-gold-and-jazz-band-768x367.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/touch-of-gold-and-jazz-band-1536x734.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/touch-of-gold-and-jazz-band-2048x978.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The new unwrapped toys will be distributed on Monday, December 22, to the families who signed up for the program, who have children needing a little Christmas joy.&nbsp;Necessities and Christmas gifts are provided for disadvantaged children from infants to age 12, through the&nbsp;Salvation&nbsp;Army&nbsp;Angel Tree Program in Jones, Jasper, Wayne, Clarke, Smith and Simpson counties. For more information about the Angel Tree project, go to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/salvationarmyalm.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/salvationarmyalm.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information, call the 糖心直播 of Art, Music and Performance Office at 601-477-4203 or follow 糖心直播 Art, Music and Performance Facebook Page and \u201cX\u201d or Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ELLISVILLE \u2013 For more than 13 years 糖心直播\u2019s Christmas with the Arts patrons have generously provided hundreds of new toys for the Salvation Army Toy Drive and this year\u2019s donations will provide an extra bonus for recipients. Thanks to the generous support of the community, Salvation Army Captain Keisha McMullin said these gifts will &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/news\/jones-colleges-christmas-with-the-arts-salvation-army-toy-drive-provide-bonus-gifts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;糖心直播&#8217;s \u201cChristmas with the Arts\u201d &amp;\u00a0Salvation\u00a0Army\u00a0Toy Drive provide bonus gifts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6399"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6399"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6404,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6399\/revisions\/6404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}