shooting in a Moncrief neighborhood<\/a> sent a 20-year-old man to the hospital, community members are speaking out and sharing their thoughts on people who are painting the area in a negative light.\u00a0<\/p>\n“I know a lot of the kids, and I know their potential and the greatness that’s already in them,” said Pastor Glenn F. Foreman Jr., senior pastor at Zion Hope Missionary Baptist Church on the northside.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Pastor Foreman has spent most of his life in the area. He graduated from Ribault High School, and now his children attend schools in the area as well.<\/p>\n
That’s why he says incidents like the shooting that happened on Monday are so personal to him.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“As a pastor, it bothers me. Stories get posted about our kids for fighting, which happens in all communities and at all schools,” said Foreman. “It gets elevated, and the story of what our kids can do and what they already are doing oftentimes gets buried.”<\/p>\n
Zion Hope Missionary Baptist Church is only about half a mile from Raines and the location of the shooting. Foreman says that violence is definitely a problem all over the city, but he doesn’t want it to overshadow all of the good that happens on the northside of Jacksonville.<\/p>\n
“I’ve been around long enough to know that some of the things that have happened in the past were truly devastating, but what we’re seeing today is just really disheartening,” said Foreman. “But at the same time, there’s still so much greatness that is happening that we cannot let one or two situations blind what these kids are doing great within our schools.”<\/p>\n
When he’s not in the pulpit, Pastor Foreman coaches youth sports, and his kids attend schools in the area. He says he knows the people of his community, and most importantly, he knows their hearts.<\/p>\n
“This is a community of love, and it’s the heartbeat of people who care,” said Pastor Foreman. “We just can’t let one situation darken everything that is happening and being done at Raines, Ribault and at Ribault Middle.”<\/p>\n
Raines High School posted a statement to social media addressing the shooting, where they said in part, “as a school with a 99 percent graduation rate, and a ‘B’ school grade, we remain committed to maintaining a culture of excellence, safety and high standards for all our students.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Jacksonville pastor says he doesn’t want one violent incident to diminish the good that’s happening within the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-231956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}