 Good evening. My name is Emma Brewer-Wallin, and I'm the Minister of Environmental and Economic Justice. And I'm the Reverend Liz Garrigan-Birely Area Conference Minister for the North Central Region. So many of our pastors, including our Executive Conference Minister, have shared pastoral and prophetic words today following the latest school shooting. We hope you will continue to turn to them for comfort and inspiration. As Reverend Goodwin said, some of us are numb, some of us are grieving, some of us are burning to do something, and many of us are all three. Our faith asks us to live the love and justice of Jesus. And so we want to share with you some of the tangible ways to do that following the Uvaldi Massacre. First love. Be attentive to the children and families and educators in your congregations this weekend. Reach out to them. Show them your love. Be mindful of how you talk and pray about traumatic experiences in their presence. We are especially mindful that there are those within the conference for whom the memory of an elementary school shooting is particularly personal and painful. And then reach out with love beyond your church community. Write personalized cards or create prayer flags for the staff at the local schools in your community. Express your care and support of them. Offer your gratitude for all the care they provide the children and pray for their wholeness and well-being. Justice in the wake of gun violence means doing everything in our power to help prevent that violence from happening again. While mass shootings like the ones that occurred yesterday in Texas and a week ago in New York are ones that particularly capture the nation's attention and break our hearts. We know that gun violence occurs far more often in people's homes through acts of domestic violence and suicide. As you are called, I invite you to join in taking legislative action, contacting your elected officials to let them know that your heart is breaking and that you are asking for stricter gun control laws. Although we here in the southern New England states have some of the stronger gun control laws in this country, we know that even this is not enough. Contacting your elected officials is a way to let them know what is on your heart and it is a way to thank them for the good work that many of them are already doing and have been doing for years. The link at the bottom of this video will take you to a list of resources including a list of legislative actions that you can take in your state. As we continue to lift up our individual prayers for the victims of this shooting and for their families and for their whole community. And as we continue to come together as church communities to lift up our prayers together, I invite you to also consider how you as a community might be called to take action to live the love and justice of which surely now more than ever our communities need.