Texas pastor preaching at Illinois church

FORT WORTH, Texas — The pastor of a Texas church where seven people died in a 1999 shooting will preach at an Illinois church a week after the pastor there was gunned down.

"I want them to know you get through this," the Rev. Al Meredith, pastor of Fort Worth's Wedgwood Baptist Church, said of the members of First Baptist Church in Maryville, Ill. "You'll never get over it, but the rest of God's kingdom around the world is praying for you."

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