Help Emerald City Bible Fellowship and Community Passageways Recover from a Shooting

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Help restore ECBF Sanctuary and provide counseling for Community Passageways Team

 

March 17^th, a shooting happened at Emerald City Bible Fellowship in one of our partners programs.  A young man lost his life, a family lost their son, and our community is reeling from this tragedy. 

 

Many have inquired in how they can support, both ECBF and Community Passageways.  Prayer is critical and we have outlined some specific prayer needs below. There are also tangible needs both physical and financial.

 

We have set up a fund at Emerald City Bible Fellowship to meet the unexpected needs and help restore what has been lost in this tragedy.  The Restore Fund will support:

 

1)      Emerald City Bible Fellowship. Restoring the church’s Sanctuary and free the physical space from the memory of this tragedy.  The carpet was damaged and needs to be repaired.  Rather than make a patch that carries the memory of the incident, we want to replace the carpet and refresh the whole space.

 

2)      Community Passageways.  Their team needs resources to provide ongoing grief and trauma counseling.  Many witnessed the event and need time to process.  We want to support them and help alleviate the financial burden of caring for those impacted.

 

Let’s help take care of the physical space and financial burdens, so the ECBF family and Community Passageways, can work on healing the emotional space and continue their ministries to those most impacted.  Let’s help restore what was lost.

 

You can send a gift to Emerald City Bible Fellowship, 7728 Rainier Ave S, Seattle, WA 98118 or give online at EmeraldCityBible.org. when using either method designate your gift to the “Restore Fund”.

 

Continue to Prayer for:

 

·   Tragic loss of a young man’s life that occurred the week in our building. Pray for his family, friends and community surrounding this incident.

 

·   Pray for the Community Passageways staff and young people who witnessed this event and are processing the grief and pain from the incident

 

·   Pray for the shooter who is on the run.  Pray for his soul and trauma, for healing and release from his hate, anger, bitterness, and desire to retaliate for crimes done to him.

 

·   Pray for leadership and healing as we work with our partners and church to re-create a sense of safe place, in the physical space, among our community and in relationships surrounding the event.

 

·   Pray for Emerald City Bible Fellowship as we work to redeem this time and space in our sanctuary and prepare to move forward into our season of Easter celebration.