to continue to comfort one another and continue to comfort, father god, those that can t be comforted. because the truth of the matter is, lord, our city is hurting. but one day, lord, we know that our city will march back in to that theater and we ll claim that theater back, father god, because it doesn t belong to terrorists, lord. it belongs to the city of aurora. we ask, father god, that you would bring this comfort and that you would have it rest and rule in our hearts. in jesus name we pray. and everyone said, amen. god bless you. prayer for the city of aurora, representative rhonda fields.
grant us peace, your most precious gift. and help us to be partners with you in shining the light of peace in the darkest corners of your creation. as a jewish prayer, we say [ speaking in foreign language ] may the one who makes peace in the high heavens send peace to us and to all creation and let us say amen. once again, i want to thank you all for your willing support and participation in tonight s prayer vigil. once again, it s because of you, because of all of us aurora is still an all-american city.
cut short and in such a tragic way? these are questions to which there are no answers. but in this time, we turn to our faith for comfort and guidance. we turn to our families and friends for strength and support. but it may be impossible to arrive at an explanation that will make sense to us. what is not impossible is to determine our course of action from here. a course that will help us reclaim peace in our lives. aurora has long been a place of community, diversity and growth. we are a family in aurora. i came to this city as a young man and i raised my family here. we are good, hard working people who believe in the goodness of our family men. we are coming together tonight as a family would, to provide
good evening, aurora! first giving honor to god who is the source of my life, to the governor of this great state, to the mayor of this great city, and to all of the elected officials behind me that i serve with, to the victims and the survivors and all who are here today, i want you to know that we are aurora and we are strong! thank you for being here this evening. and i ve been asked to pray for our city so please bow your head in prayer. almighty god, you are the
city council member debbie hunter holick. this is chris jansing back live. as we re watching mayor, let s take a look out across the crowd because it s truly remarkable. when we spoke with police officers last night, when we talked to some of the organizers of of this vigil, they said they hoped to fill the lawn. they hoped that 5,000 people would come out here to show their support for those who have suffered such a tragic loss and all of them in their own way feeling the heart break. we are getting official estimate that they believe that the crowd is 10,000 and growing and everywhere i look you see people, you see them lining the sidewalks on the side of this lawn. tremendous numbers of families, large number of american flags and when we heard prayers, you could hear a pin drop in this huge crowd. the city of aurora, colorado. and i m sure many people from