Service of mourning planned Sunday for Emanuel AME victims

YOUNGSTOWN — A service of repentance and mourning with Holy Communion is planned at 6 p.m. Sunday at Martin Luther Lutheran Church, 420 Clearmount Drive.

This service is hosted by congregations of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America located in Mahoning County.

This service is in response to the deaths June 17 at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. The Rev. Dr. Brandon A. A. J. Davis, pastor of St. Andrewes AME Church, will preach, and the Rev. David Kamphuis, pastor of Martin Luther Lutheran, will preside over the Eucharist.

An offering will be collected for the Rebuild the Churches Fund to assist black congregations whose churches were destroyed by arson.