Dallas church holds a prayer service Tuesday afternoon to honor the daughter of its former pastor and the sister of a beloved church member who were killed Monday in the Nashville school shooting.
“We realized that the substitute teacher there, Cindy Peak, who was killed, is the sister of one of our members as well. And so that just added another layer of heartbreak for our community,” said Mark Davis, senior pastor at Park Cities Presbyterian Church. “It was rich, it was beautiful, but lots of tears, lots of sorrow, lots of grieving, all appropriate, you know, because this is a horrible tragedy.
“We're here because we weep with our friends and we're grieving,” said Paul Goebel, associate pastor of Park Cities Presbyterian Church. Chad served as associate pastor from 2013 to 2018. He is the current lead pastor at the Covenant Presbyterian Church in Nashville. "All the kids were here. And it was her first time back as a family since they had left altogether. So, I saw her from a distance," Davis said.
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