FAKE SHOOTING -Saint Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Vestavia Hills Alabama - June 2022

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You are with the church. I am with Bishop Glenda Curry's office. So I work for the diocesan office as the missionary of clergy formation and handling some communications. Tell me what you know right now. So right now what we know is there were folks at church, there has been a shooting and there are folks that have been injured. We are working to get more information to take care of people that were there. We're kind of like with everybody else just waiting to learn more. Currently we are praying for healing and safety for all of those that have been impacted and affected and also knowing that this is a traumatic thing that has happened to our community, not just our church, but this community here. And so we are praying for everyone that is involved and we're trying to get as much information about what happened as we can get. But we know that some people have been seems understanding as some people have been hurt and so we are praying that they are okay. I know there was an event there tonight. A potluck dinner at do you have any idea how many people might have been there? We don't as of yet. We are just kind of arriving and getting up a speed as fast as we can. What do you need from what do you need from folks? Well we're Episcopalians. We believe in Jesus and we believe that prayer helps. We also know that there's a lot bigger community here other than just Christians and Episcopalians. And so people that care about each other and to take care of each other and to pray or to share your thoughts or whatever it is to lift up this community and healing because a lot of people are going to be hurting not just people that have been physically injured but this is a scary thing when it happens. And so what we need is for this community to do what it's really good at which is coming together to take care of each other through prayers and thoughts and anything else. We know that they have someone in custody. Have you heard anything about that? I have not heard anything yet about who is in custody. Okay. And then you have accounted for all the folks who work at the church. Do you I know you've been trying to reach people? Yes we are in contact with the staff and they are gathered together. So we have we are in communication with them and know that the staff has been accounted for at this moment. So everybody's okay? From the folks from what I'm aware of we have staff that have been gathered and we know that the staff is okay but we are we don't have complete information on who has been hurt. So no threats in the past that nothing that would make this is a shock to you. Yes. Yes. So All right. Anything you want to add I'm forgetting any message you want to send? Take care of each other folks. This is something we're going to need a lot of love and take care of each other. You hear this happening around the country and everything gets going to happen. It is and yeah you don't think it's going to happen here and it's scary but we can this community's got a lot of love and care in it and this is something that we can take care of each other and we can get through this together and we are going to do everything we can to take care of the folks that have been hurt and this community that's been hurt too by this.