Rome prayer meeting

People gather in Rome to pray for an end to all the violence.

A different kind.

News channel two's gary liberatore has more on a pastor's idea to hold an outdoor 'prayer meeting'...to pray for an end to all of this violence.

As some came together in a 'crowd' to worship for the first time in more than two months.

Tc : 40:53 "nat of singing& we need you lord, this city needs your power&" some say praying to the lord is the only thing that will help stop the horrific images we are continuing to see from across the country, including in some cities right here in statenew y: 53:33 "pray for utica and rome, oh god, for syrasewhere to to state of emergency."

(pastor mark schilling, redeemer church in rome) .

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None tc : 33:44 "so we want to make a place for people to come and pray and stand together and just believe god that he's going to heal our country, heal physical bodies, heal our economy, heal the racial divides that exist that's what we're hoping to do today."

Redeemer church of rome's pastor...mark schilling says he understands why people are upset at seeing this video of a black man being slowly choked to death by a white police officer...as he kneelon 8 minutes.

Pastor schilling says people are fed up...they feelikr heard...but he too says violence is not the answer.

(pastor mark schilling, redeemer church in rome) tc : 34:13 "there's a very realvoicet feel heard or understoodnwe wany we see you, we hear you and we wanna make sure that every person of every background of every color of every nation feels loved and feels like they're."

But can this one prayer meeting help?

Tc : 37:43 "absoluely, absolutely and we need to pray..."

(amy myers, utica resident) tc : 38:06 "you should be gathering together to ask the lord to come and meet with us and to bring peace to our community and to bring healing for this virus and for the trauma that's happening in our world."

And many say with positive gatherings nationwide... tc : 46:06 "i can't stop a riot but we nstarty just might help.

(stephanie schilling, church member) tc : 38:47 "i think it's awesome that we can all come together here and unity, i feel like our communities could use some positive people standing up and just saying that we want a gathering in rome today of a different kind.