{"id":1100,"date":"2025-09-23T01:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T01:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saintzacharie.org\/2025\/09\/23\/update-from-mgr-melki-september-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T01:41:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T01:41:33","slug":"update-from-mgr-melki-september-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saintzacharie.org\/en\/2025\/09\/23\/update-from-mgr-melki-september-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Update from Mgr. Melki &#8211; September 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dear friends and benefactors of the Saint-Zacharie Association,<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Peace in Our Lord Jesus Christ,<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I look back on the last two years of activities of our Association, 2023\u20132024 and 2024\u20132025. As in the past, we have continued to welcome underprivileged children in our Home in Harissa, Lebanon, and to extend a helping hand to families in need\u2014all in harmony with the mission of the Association.  <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition, we have continued our renovation work on the house by restoring and painting doors and walls. We also installed solar panels to help overcome the shortage of electricity. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two other major projects were completed: we built a playground for the children, a space of 90 m\u00b2, and a parking lot for five cars.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All these projects came to life thanks to your generosity and your unwavering support. May the Lord reward you with health, prosperity, and all that your good heart desires. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I am currently in Laval, I wish to express my strong desire to meet those of you who live in Canada.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sincerely, <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Mgr. Melki <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear friends and benefactors of the Saint-Zacharie Association, Peace in Our Lord Jesus Christ, I look back on the last two years of activities of our Association, 2023\u20132024 and 2024\u20132025. As in the past, we have continued to welcome underprivileged children in our Home in Harissa, Lebanon, and to extend a helping hand to families in need\u2014all in harmony with the mission of the Association. In addition, we have continued our renovation work on the house by restoring and painting doors and walls. We also installed solar panels to help overcome the shortage of electricity. Two other major projects were completed: we built a playground for the children, a space of 90 m\u00b2, and a parking lot for five cars. All these projects came to life thanks to your generosity and your unwavering support. May the Lord reward you with health, prosperity, and all that your good heart desires. As I am currently in Laval, I wish to express my strong desire to meet those of you who live in Canada. Sincerely, Mgr. Melki<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1095,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foyer-home-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintzacharie.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintzacharie.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintzacharie.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintzacharie.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintzacharie.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/saintzacharie.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1101,"href":"https:\/\/saintzacharie.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions\/1101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintzacharie.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintzacharie.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintzacharie.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintzacharie.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}