She’s witnessed a sobbing mother who just lost her child to suicide and two families who lost their children to gun violence. She lost Mary Jo Nye, her childhood babysitter, and Barbara Hawthorne, an aunt whose family attends the church, during the rampage by a shooter in Kalamazoo earlier this year. She also has regular small group discussions within her ministry: “Over and over again, these conversations turn to gun violence,” Kline said.