Matt Briscoe

Almost half of First Baptist Church was murdered last week. This week they gathered again, joined by 400 people, including Muslims, friends, and complete strangers.

Members of the congregation were notified about the Sunday service by Pastor Frank Pomeroy, who lost his daughter in mass shooting that killed 26 congregants and injured 20.

Three gunshot wounds, according to an official.

A camera captured the massacre inside First Baptist Church that saw nearly everyone inside shot or killed.

Bryan and Karla Holcombe, a son, daughter-in-law, and four grandkids died at First Baptist. ‘Bryan would have grabbed that shooter and said how much he loved him,’ a friend says.

Rylan Ward is out of surgery, his family says.

First Baptist’s congregants had just finished learning the importance of unyielding faith in trying times when a gunman opened fire.

Karla Holcombe was a mother of four who taught Sunday school classes and volunteered at a prison. Bryan was preaching when he was cut down.

Before he killed 26 people, Devin Kelley was sentenced to confinement and discharged from the military. Last week, he ominously showed off an assault rifle on Facebook.