Epworth will host an interfaith prayer vigil at 5 PM Wednesday, June 1, in the sanctuary. The vigil will be livestreamed. Let us pray and live and work for peace and an end to gun violence together.
On Saturday, May 14, ten people were killed and another three wounded when a mass shooting erupted at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, that authorities allege was a "racially motivated hate crime" carried out by a heavily armed white teenager who fired a barrage of 50 shots outside and inside the market.
On May 24, 2022, a gunman fatally shot 21 people at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas — 2 adults and 19 children — before authorities fatally shot him. The shooting is considered to be the second deadliest school shooting on record in the U.S., after the Sandy Hook school shootings in Connecticut in 2012.
On Sunday, May 15, 2022, one person was killed and five others wounded at a shooting at the Geneva Presbyterian Church in the city of Laguna Woods, about 45 miles southeast of Los Angeles.
