{"id":3511,"date":"2024-10-10T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/?p=3511"},"modified":"2024-10-10T14:15:32","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T14:15:32","slug":"mcpherson-sends-cards-to-uvalde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/2024\/10\/10\/mcpherson-sends-cards-to-uvalde\/","title":{"rendered":"McPherson sends cards to Uvalde"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"542\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/10\/WritingMothersDayCardsforUvalde-byLoisGrove.jpg\" alt=\"People sitting around a table filled with cards, stamps, envelopes.\" class=\"wp-image-3510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/10\/WritingMothersDayCardsforUvalde-byLoisGrove.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/10\/WritingMothersDayCardsforUvalde-byLoisGrove-300x282.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/10\/WritingMothersDayCardsforUvalde-byLoisGrove-560x527.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Members of McPherson Church of the Brethren write cards. Photo by Lois Grove<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Forever a teacher, Bev Nye brought to the adult Sunday school at McPherson (Kan.) Church of the Brethren a multi-week presentation and discussion about gun violence. Special attention was given to children killed by guns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The class investigated data, invited the sheriff to talk about gun locks among other things, and discussed actions people could take. Every Sunday, pictures and short biographies of the children and teacher killed in the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, were posted on the walls of the classroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Frustrated with the question of what effective action can lessen gun violence, Nye suggested that the class write Mother\u2019s Day cards to the mothers of the children killed on that awful day in Uvalde. A local card-maker, Jana Goering, designed poignant cards in which to write heartfelt messages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One evening, many of the class members gathered together to write cards and to grieve with the parents and to stand with them as they negotiate another Mother\u2019s Day. Somehow it seemed the right thing to do.<br><em>\u2014Lois Grove<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>This story originally appeared in <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/\">Messenger<\/a><em>. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning about gun violence inspired a McPherson Sunday school class to take action. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3510,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[335,493,336,521,520,373],"class_list":["post-3511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-western-plains","tag-45-160","tag-gun-violence","tag-mcpherson-church-of-the-brethren","tag-mothers-day","tag-uvalde","tag-western-plains-district"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511","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=3511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}