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What Can Your Congregation Do?
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- Hold a prayer vigil for your congregation. If you have a youth group, be sure to include young people in the planning and leadership of the vigil.
- Organize an ecumenical prayer service in your community.
- Create opportunities for people, especially young people and parents, to talk about the shooting.
- During worship, include prayers for the victims, survivors, families, teachers, emergency response personnel and those who will minister to the community in the aftermath of the violence.
- Remember in your prayers the communities impacted by previous school shootings. The tragedy at Virginia Tech may evoke painful reminders and flashbacks of the violence they experienced.
- Work with your local school officials, encouraging them to implement violence prevention programs.
- Organize a meeting with the ministerial alliance, ecumenical and interfaith associations and local human service agencies to develop a preparedness response/plan should your community be directly affected by such a tragedy.
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Index of response to Virginia Tech shootings
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