Grief, pain, hope and faith at church services following latest deadly school shooting
Associated Press
Grief, pain, hope and faith permeated church services Sunday in an Atlanta area community coping with the nation’s latest deadly school shooting. There were prayers, hymns, sermons and at one church, a first-person account of the tragedy. Brooke Lewis-Slamkova, who teaches at Apalachee High School, told members of Bethlehem First United Methodist Church that she was about halfway through a class Wednesday when the lockdown alarms activated. She said she took heart in seeing the way students and parents comforted each other in the tragedy’s wake. A student, 14-year-old Colt Gray, has been charged with murder over the killing of two students and two teachers.
