Tragedy strikes First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs during Sunday service.
During its Sunday morning worship service, a Southern Baptist church in rural Texas became America’s latest mass shooting.
Local and national media outlets report at least 20 people dead at First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs. Weekly YouTube videos of the church’s Sunday service don’t show many more people than that in attendance.
A pastor of a neighboring church told local TV media that he knows many of the victims, and he is confident that the victims are “in the loving arms of Jesus” right now.
“Another church shooting. Lord have mercy,” tweeted Russell Moore of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention.
President Donald Trump tweeted, “May God be w/ the people of Sutherland Springs, Texas. The FBI & law enforcement are on the scene. I am monitoring the situation from Japan.”
TV news anchors discussed the fact that the church, located about 40 minutes southeast of San Antonio, posts its services to YouTube, and thus there may be a recording of the shooting that investigators will be able to study.
Last Sunday, a green Harley Davidson was parked in front of the stage as a prop for pastor Frank Pomeroy’s sermon on Proverbs 3, entitled “You Don’t Need Training Wheels. You Need Christ.”
Facebook users have been posting prayers to the small church’s page. One wrote:
To the martyrs of Southerland Springs:
Remember God is our comfort, God is our patience. God is our refuge.
We fear nothing that man can do to the body, and then have no more they can do, for we are dead, and our lives are hidden with Christ in God.
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