SUNDAY April 2- 2023- YEAR 2- Episode# 57 Good Sunday Morning with Fr Andre on KNUS 710 am. Special Guests: Chris A.,  Mrs Jacqueline Emanuel

The Safety of our children in schools. A Security and a religious read on the The Nashville Christian school shooting.

 

Mr. Chris Sorensen

BIO: Chris, a friend of the Mission of Hope and Mercy, and a veteran himself. Has personal consulting business in risks, vulnerability and threat assessments and a  security business. 

 

Mrs. Jackeline Emmanuel, Mission of Hope and Mercy, in Training Operation Manager. 

BIO:  Jacqueline Emanuel, graduated from ESA university with a Business/ finance degree. She worked as a freelance accountant and then was employed in Bank Med as senior customer service representative. Jackeline was a top performer over the past 10 years and got promoted 4 times. She now works as the in training Operation manager for the Mission of Hope and Mercy in order to organize and schedule the mission goals, protocols and set targets based on professional standards and norms.

 

 

WHAT WILL THE GUESTS SPEAK ABOUT:  

 

The Safety of our children in schools is at risk. While we mourn the loss of the children and the staffs who were killed in the Nashville shooting, we want to pray for the rest of their souls, and for comfort to their families. This is a very unsettling and sad situation. We are praying for the victims and the members of our community. We are thankful to the two courageous police officers who shot and killed the perpetrator and saved the other members of the school.

 

Where do we go from there? Gun violence and mass shooting are very complex topics in the US. it is way beyond the competence of our show. However we like to honor the names of the people who were killed, and to focus on how we can make safer our children in the schools. 

 

From a Security perspective, a question could be always true: how can we make the schools safer? On the other hand, from a religious perspective, The Nashville Christian school shooting targeted a religious based school. Do we know enough if the shooting is related to the fact that this school is religious base or not? We need to wait for the results of the investigation if they can share or shed light on this dimension in order to help us make religious based schools more protected and safer as well. Remember that the shooting happened in a Christian conservative Presbyterian school of the Covenant. The daughter of the pastor of that church is one of the three little 9 year old victims. What is the lesson we need to learn here? One of the three focuses of The Mission of Hope and Mercy is Education. Through our education and awareness program, we support the needs of several schools and students and spread awareness about the Truth and Hope of Jesus Christ. The Mission of Hope and Mercy has in fact achieved in a great way saving a christian school which was opened in 1940 from closing when the Mission adopted the school teachers, nuns and students in 2021. The school did not close, and today the Mission of Hope and Mercy supports in this school the model of pluralism, coexistence, religious mutual respect, integration, and academic excellence. We have successfully achieved saving these children from human trafficking, illiteracy, terrorist harvesting and they have become an integration model for peace and freedom in Lebanon. We have in the school 220 students. 105 Syrian Sunni refugees, 57 lebanese Shia muslims, and 58 Christian students. Supporting the Mission of Hope and Mercy’s educational mission can bring great news to many families, children and orphans in the US and Lebanon.   

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