{"id":560,"date":"2018-02-02T12:38:56","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T18:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/?p=560"},"modified":"2018-02-04T12:51:02","modified_gmt":"2018-02-04T18:51:02","slug":"tragedy-at-ike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/02\/tragedy-at-ike\/","title":{"rendered":"Tragedy at IKE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"561\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/02\/tragedy-at-ike\/gothic-1629448_640\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/gothic-1629448_640.jpg?fit=640%2C427\" data-orig-size=\"640,427\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"gothic-1629448_640\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/gothic-1629448_640.jpg?fit=640%2C427\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-561\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/gothic-1629448_640.jpg?resize=300%2C200\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/gothic-1629448_640.jpg?resize=300%2C200 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/gothic-1629448_640.jpg?w=640 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is with a heavy heart that we report that one of the dear students at Eisenhower, where the LIGHT! serves as the advisor to the IKE Care Club, passed away unexpectedly this week.<\/p>\n<p>One of our young seventh grade students was suffering from depression and sadly, took his own life.\u00a0 He was surrounded by a loving family who had done everything to help him (he was on medication, he was seeing counselors, he was affirmed by his parents, etc.)<\/p>\n<p>In spite of all the support he had this young man still didn&#8217;t make it.<\/p>\n<p>Our heart goes out to him and his family.\u00a0 We don&#8217;t know why God allowed this.\u00a0 We all want to know how we could have done more to prevent this tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>We hope and pray that this young man is in Heaven now.\u00a0 We will work with the IKE Care Club to be &#8220;salt and light&#8221; to help the student body heal even as they remember and honor this poor soul who had lost hope.<\/p>\n<p>Please join with us in prayer and service.\u00a0 We covet your ministry alongside us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is with a heavy heart that we report that one of the dear students at Eisenhower, where the LIGHT! serves as the advisor to the IKE Care Club, passed away unexpectedly this week. 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