{"id":705,"date":"2022-10-19T11:11:41","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T15:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/?post_type=article&#038;p=705"},"modified":"2022-10-19T11:39:37","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T15:39:37","slug":"2022-23-launches-with-hope","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/article\/2022-23-launches-with-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"2022-23 Launches With Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCommunity\u201d is our Chapel and Gathering theme this year which began August 16 with 383 students: 106 in grades K to 5; 118 in 6 to 8; and 159 in 9 to 12.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>53 faith communities are represented, including Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, and multi-faith, and some with no affiliation<\/li>\n<li>21% identify as various races and ethnicities which are not white<\/li>\n<li>20% qualify for the Free and Reduced Lunch Program<\/li>\n<li>27% receive needs-based tuition assistance<\/li>\n<li>71% receive tuition support as discounts, scholarships, or other aid<\/li>\n<li>100% benefit from donor support which makes the school possible<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jared Stutzman called faculty, staff and students to notice circles as he led opening music at the faculty\/staff conference and the first chapel. \u201cA circle is a beautiful thing&#8230; when you are inside it,\u201d he said.. \u201c&#8230;but it can really hurt if you are outside of the circle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stay in touch as we learn about community \u2013 watch Chapel live or search for \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/EasternMennoniteSchoolChapelServices\">Eastern Mennonite School Chapel<\/a>\u201d on YouTube.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCommunity\u201d is our Chapel and Gathering theme this year which began August 16 with 383 students: 106 in grades K to 5; 118 in 6 to 8; and 159 in 9 to 12. 53 faith communities are represented, including Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, and multi-faith, and some with no affiliation 21% identify as various races&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":725,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"issuem_issue":[33],"issuem_issue_categories":[],"issuem_issue_tags":[],"class_list":["post-705","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","issuem_issue-fall-2022"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/705","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=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":708,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/705\/revisions\/708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue_categories?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue_tags?post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}