{"id":639,"date":"2022-02-07T15:58:55","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T20:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/?post_type=article&#038;p=639"},"modified":"2022-02-07T15:58:55","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T20:58:55","slug":"a-time-to-laugh-and-a-time-to-cry","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/article\/a-time-to-laugh-and-a-time-to-cry\/","title":{"rendered":"A Time to Laugh And a Time to Cry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three times a week, students grades 6-12 join chapel either in person (always masked) or by live stream.<\/p>\n<p>With teen anxiety and stress at an all-time nationwide high, we added mental and emotional well being to our theme of \u201cFaith at Work\u201d for the year. We have also made a point to laugh more together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most important thing we can teach our students right now, is to love life,\u201d says Justin King, high school principal. \u201cComing together for chapel reminds us that we are part of a caring community, and that we are loved unconditionally by God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Student leaders meet twice\u00a0a month in the Chapel Planning Committee. Visit the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC6Nrt6RuzmPpBdInCssoCyA\">Eastern Mennonite School Chapel<\/a>\u2019\u2019 channel on YouTube. People who are open to speaking in chapel should email <a href=\"mailto:chapel@easternmennonite.org\">chapel@easternmennonite.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three times a week, students grades 6-12 join chapel either in person (always masked) or by live stream. With teen anxiety and stress at an all-time nationwide high, we added mental and emotional well being to our theme of \u201cFaith at Work\u201d for the year. We have also made a point to laugh more together.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":640,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"issuem_issue":[31],"issuem_issue_categories":[],"issuem_issue_tags":[],"class_list":["post-639","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","issuem_issue-winter-2022"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":641,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/639\/revisions\/641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue_categories?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue_tags?post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}