Week of Mourning in Lancaster County

People are born and die every day but when young people die, it touches all of us with an extraordinary amount of sympathy and concern.

We had 4 young men die last Sunday in a terrible auto accident that has touched off a week of mourning in Lancaster County. Friends, classmates, & family gathered throughout the week at the accident scene, school, and churches to share and express their grief for those lost.

All were football players for Manheim Central High School in Lancaster County.

All were 16 years and younger.

Nicolas Bryson, 10th grade, 15 years old

John Griffith, 11th grade, 16 years old

Cody Hollinger, 10th grade, 16 years old

DeVaughn Lee, 9th grade, 15 years old

Even if we didn't know these teenagers, their deaths touched us in a way that we too mourned the loss of these young, promising men. Our hearts and prayers go out to the family and the community where these men lived.

Now, I just read tonight about a young brother & sister in Missouri who fell through an icy pond while sledding. So next week another community mourns the loss of young lives.

Time sometimes seems to stand still when tragedies occur. But life does go on. And with the help of family, friends and faith, those who mourn will be comforted.

"So now faith, hope & love remain but the greatest of these is love " I Corinthians 13:13