{"id":219,"date":"2023-02-22T23:36:36","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T23:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arabicchurchsacramento.org\/?page_id=219"},"modified":"2025-03-06T22:10:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T22:10:25","slug":"our-story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/arabicchurchsacramento.org\/?page_id=219","title":{"rendered":"Our Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/arabicchurchsacramento.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/5-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arabicchurchsacramento.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/5-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/arabicchurchsacramento.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/5-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/arabicchurchsacramento.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/5-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/arabicchurchsacramento.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/5-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/arabicchurchsacramento.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/5.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"has-nv-c-2-color has-text-color wp-block-heading\">Building Bridges<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Our Lord placed an open door before the Arabic Church of Sacramento to reach out to the Arabic and Muslim refugees who came from the uttermost part of the world and settled in our neighborhoods. We seek to brefriend the&nbsp;brokenhearted, the captives, and the oppressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2006, the church launched the Arab-American Learning Center (AALC) to serve and support the refugee community. We have become their new home in the new land.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The center has ministries such as: Living Water Preschool, Refugee Support Services, ESL Classes, Discipleship Meetings, Donation Days, Garden Days, Young Adult Ministry, and Annual outreach events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The purpose of these ministries is to build bridges into the local refugee community by meeting practical needs and sharing the good news of Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-100 is-style-primary\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-nv-site-bg-color has-nv-c-2-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/arabicchurchsacramento.org\/?page_id=228\" style=\"border-radius:58px\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n    Meet Our Team\n  <\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building Bridges Our Lord placed an open door before the Arabic Church of Sacramento to reach out to the Arabic and Muslim refugees who came from the uttermost part of the world and settled in our neighborhoods. We seek to brefriend the&nbsp;brokenhearted, the captives, and the oppressed. In 2006, the church launched the Arab-American Learning&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/arabicchurchsacramento.org\/?page_id=219\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Our Mission<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-219","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabicchurchsacramento.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabicchurchsacramento.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabicchurchsacramento.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabicchurchsacramento.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabicchurchsacramento.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/arabicchurchsacramento.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":503,"href":"https:\/\/arabicchurchsacramento.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/219\/revisions\/503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabicchurchsacramento.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}