{"id":3488,"date":"2023-12-22T20:27:08","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T20:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/?p=3488"},"modified":"2023-12-22T20:27:08","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T20:27:08","slug":"mountville-plants-pinwheels-for-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/2023\/12\/22\/mountville-plants-pinwheels-for-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountville plants pinwheels for peace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/12\/Mountville-Peace-Day.jpg\" alt=\"People near hundreds of colorful pinwheels in a church yard\" class=\"wp-image-3483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/12\/Mountville-Peace-Day.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/12\/Mountville-Peace-Day-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/12\/Mountville-Peace-Day-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2023\/12\/Mountville-Peace-Day-560x315.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Mountville Church of the Brethren recognition of International Day of Peace.<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In recognition of the International Day of Peace<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MountvilleChurchoftheBrethren\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mountville (Pa.) Church of the Brethren<\/a> on Sunday, Sept. 17, shared a litany of remembrance for the 216 children killed each month in the United States due to gun violence (according to Pew Research Center, April 6, 2023). Following worship, the congregation \u201cplanted\u201d pinwheels in the lawn, each representing a child, as a public witness to \u201cSeek Peace and Pursue It.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Sept. 21, a public candlelight vigil was an opportunity for the whole community to lament, remember, and witness to God\u2019s call to be people of peace. <em>\u2014Angela Finet<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This article originally appeared in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/\">Messenger magazine<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mountville Church of the Brethren recognized the 216 children killed each month by gun violence with a litany and a garden of pinwheels. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3483,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[243],"tags":[325,493,337,198,196,516],"class_list":["post-3488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atlantic-northeast","tag-atlantic-northeast-district","tag-gun-violence","tag-jesus-in-the-neighborhood","tag-mountville-church-of-the-brethren","tag-peace","tag-prayer-for-peace"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}