As the congregation at St. Stephens starts the lengthy healing process, another congregation in the area knows all too well what they’re going through. Just six months ago, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints dealt with its own church shooting.
“It was scary,” said Barry Sadler. “It was a very frightening event and a lot of our members were impacted.” Sadler is the Birmingham Stake President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.“They played a game or two and then one of them went to a bag that he had and pulled out a pistol and shot one of our missionaries, Michael Fauber.”“He’s still in the process of recovering,” said Sadler. “It’s a long recovery process but he’s progressing.
“We had some training for some of our leadership and we’ve talked about how to handle situations like that,” said Sadler. “Then we increased the lighting in our parking lot, tried to increase some visibility around the building.”“I think over time and being together are the biggest things, moving forward with faith and prayer,” he said. “Those things help us to move forward and move past those tragic and shocking events.
Sadler says they gained strength through community support and knowing members of all different faiths were lifting them up. Now, in the wake of the fatal shooting at St. Stephen’s, he’s urging the Birmingham-metro to give them the same support and love.
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