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.
creator of the heavens and the earth. oh, god, we thank you for your loving kindness, your grace and your mercy. we thank you, lord, for being here with us today, for stopping the rain and sending rain and s spirit as a source of hope and inspiration that we will make it past today. god, we are calling out to you today with tears in our eyes and sorrow in our hearts. we come for you before you with grief, pain, and sorrow. god, please stretch out your hands towards us, fill us with your spirit of love. and please knit our hearts together. where there is despair, bring hope. where there is confusion, bring peace. lord, hear the mothers cry. heal us. comfort us. today, tomorrow, and forever. replace the pain in our hearts
i have six members of my church in that leet theater. those six members survived. five of those members were in theater 1 because of the overflow of theater 9. but a young man who just graduated from high school and going off to college, jerrell and his girlfriend jordan were in the third row center in theater 9. it s the grace of god that they got out of there alive. and i want to tell you that their parents, jerrell s parents
prayer for peace. rabbi black. let us pray. our god of all people, god of the rich and god of the poor, god of the faceless and god of the famous. god of the victims and god of all who cry on their behalf. god of those who have no god, we have come together at this sacred and solemn hour to pray for peace. these past days have been filled with horror. we have seen the devastating effects of violence on those killed and injured on their loved ones and on those who have escaped physical violence but who bear painful wounds deep within their souls. we have held tightly to our own children and played out the scenarios of what ifs and why
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