{"id":28081,"date":"2015-11-23T12:01:23","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T17:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pbs-wnet-preprod.digi-producers.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/?p=28081"},"modified":"2015-11-25T10:31:27","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T15:31:27","slug":"saving-the-next-generation-in-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pbs-wnet-preprod.digi-producers.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2015\/11\/23\/saving-the-next-generation-in-new-orleans\/28081\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving the Next Generation in New Orleans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Seventeen people were injured by gunfire last Sunday night (Nov. 22) during a block party in the Upper Ninth Ward of New Orleans. Rev. Troy Lawrence Sr. of Reaping the Harvest, a Full Gospel Baptist Church on Dauphine Street in the Lower Ninth Ward, spoke to R&amp;E about gun violence last summer at a peace festival sponsored by the city:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>PASTOR TROY LAWRENCE SR.<\/strong> (Reaping the Harvest): As being a pastor in this day and time you can\u2019t be in the pulpit, you have to be out of the pulpit. Cause the problem isn\u2019t in the church. It\u2019s on the outside of the church. We have to be more active in the community. I do have a message for young men. And, the message is really simple. You know, we have to trust God. When we get to the place where we trust him, we\u2019ll serve him. We just have to not look back but look forward. If we can get the people to think different, they\u2019ll do something different. They will never do nothing different if they never think different. We have to make sure in order for the kids to change, the parents have to change. Because they have to see it in the parents. And the kids wanna follow but if they have nothing to follow, they\u2019re gonna follow what they see in the street. They\u2019ve been trained through friends, they\u2019ve been trained through peer pressure, picking up a knife, picking up a gun, through violence. When we can train them on a spiritual level now we\u2019re bringing them back to the basics. We must know what our kids doing, where they at. We must get involved with the kids because that\u2019s what this is about. I tell you that if we can change the kids, we can have a better world. But it starts with the parents. And, that\u2019s my message to the parents and to the adults. We just gotta come together and let it be about the kids. If we can save the kids, we can save this next generation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If we can change the kids, we can have a better world. But it starts with the parents,\u201d says Rev. Troy Lawrence Sr. of Reaping the Harvest, a Full Gospel Baptist Church in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans. He spoke with R&amp;E about gun violence at a peace festival last summer. \u201cLet it be about the kids. 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