Churches respond with shock, sorrow after Georgia school shooting.
Members of the Winder Church of Christ in northeast Georgia expressed shock and sorrow after a shooting at nearby Apalachee High School claimed four lives.
“We have members that have kids that go to that school,” a church member said in a message to The Christian Chronicle. “None were harmed, but this is very tragic.”
On Wednesday, a 14-year-old student opened fire at the high school, about an hour from Atlanta, killing four people and wounding nine more, the Associated Press reported. The teen surrendered to police, and authorities charged the youth as an adult with using an assault-style rifle to kill two students and two teachers in the hallway outside his algebra classroom.
Police interviewed the youth more than a year ago while looking into online posts threatening a school shooting, but investigators didn’t have enough evidence for an arrest, the AP reported.
On Wednesday evening, hundreds gathered in Jug Tavern Park in downtown Winder for an ecumenical prayer vigil.
For Churches of Christ in Nashville, Tenn., the latest school shooting evokes painful memories of March 27, 2023, when a shooter killed seven people — three of them 9-year-old students — at The Covenant School in Nashville’s Green Hills neighborhood.
The private Presbyterian school of about 200 students and 40 staff resumed classes about a month later in the building of the Brentwood Hills Church of Christ. The 1,200-member congregation, which meets about five miles from Covenant’s campus, hosted the school through April of this year, when faculty, staff and students returned to their remodeled campus.
Brad Montague, a Christian writer, illustrator and Church of Christ member, drew this sketch in an airport after the March 27, 2023, school shooting in Nashville, Tenn. He posted the illustration to social media after the shooting in Winder, Ga. “The emotion and message remain true,” Montague wrote.
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