“When we look at this, I truly hope that people from all around the world see that Orlando is filled with many people who want to love and support one another”, said Lynn Math, a volunteer at First Baptist Church of Orlando.
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An LGBT advocacy group and a local Unitarian Universalist church are holding a candlelight vigil and walk in Portsmouth to honor the victims of the worst mass shooting in modern USA history.
Tuesday night, Central Florida’s evangelical and Pentecostal mega-churches gathered to pray for victims of the Pulse gay nightclub shootings Sunday morning, as well as for The Voice singer Christina Grimmie, who was shot to death the previous Friday in an unrelated incident at The Plaza Live.
Musicians open the vigil at Boone County Courthouse in honor of the victims of the Orlando massacre.
Each victim’s name also was listed in a stairstep pyramid pattern on a video board that dominated the chancel of the modern worship center that seats 4,400 people. “We will be defined by our love, compassion and our unity”.
The city of Orlando is planning an official memorial service the details of which should be finalized in the coming days, a spokeswoman said.
“First Baptist Orlando is hosting it and we’re allowing our facility here but it’s really a cooperative effort on terms of the program”, said de Armas. “I think it’s important that we don’t allow our conscience to get hardened and immune to the hurt and the pain, (and) allow ourselves to feel it”.
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“Everything in one place and everything will help for families because that’s what we do for those we share our city with”, Dyer said. The city is asking that as these are planned, that mass gatherings in public places are not created.
