Community Rallies Behind CrossPointe Community Church
In a June 29 Facebook post titled “The Path Forward,” Pastor Kelly wrote that CrossPointe’s “motto of the moment is ‘Walk forward, slowly.’” He thanked all the worshipers who attended the reopened church, plus the team that brought therapy dogs to comfort anxious children.
CrossPointe “knew we needed to gather soon [after the attack] to share what we had learned about the incident,” Kelly wrote, “but mainly to come together, worship, and begin healing.”
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The pastor described an “outpouring of God’s love” from the Wayne community. Immediately after the shooting, a neighbor brought evacuees cold water and even let them use a bathroom. A restaurant sent pizzas, grief counselors showed up quickly, and a local church provided rides home because worshipers had to leave their cars at the crime scene.
Two days after the attack, another church provided space for CrossPointe members to gather and receive grief counseling. One counselor has offered to give the church’s children and teens free group-therapy sessions. On June 29, another church provided food for a post-worship fellowship meal at CrossPointe.
Kelly said his congregation is still processing the trauma. “We are changed, which means that likely some other things will change as well,” he wrote. “And all change for God is good.”
