Seventh-day Adventist Conference Responds to the Murder of Charlie Kirk

September 26, 2025 NewsHound



NNEC—In the aftermath of the murder of Charlie Kirk on September 10, 2025, the administrative committee of the Northern New England Conference wish to express our sympathy to Erika Kirk, their two children and extended family. We are committed to praying for them in this time of grief and loss. 

We affirm Charlie’s courage and commitment to the Christian faith, Biblical marriage, strong families, sexual purity, and the seventh day Sabbath. Because of him, many people have been drawn to the truth of the Bible including the seventh-day Sabbath.

It is not our purpose to embrace or deny Mr. Kirk’s specific political views but rather focus on biblical unity and our mission to proclaim the Three Angels’ Messages.

Finally, we affirm all who love God and Country. God has worked for all people, and His footprints in the history of America, including its Constitution, are bulwarks supporting liberty of conscience. Revelation 12 shows that God raised up this nation as a refuge for His people and launching pad for the gospel. Revelation 13 warns of changes to come that shall deny the first Amendment rights of all Americans. Revelation 14 includes an urgent warning not to blend church and state.

We grieve the deaths of all who seek to stand for religious liberty and free speech, however imperfectly, and are determined to continue the legacy that defends truth and leads souls out of darkness and into the marvelous light of Jesus.

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We are encouraged by this balanced response to the tragic slaying of Charlie Kirk. The authors of this statement exemplify the wisdom of considering a matter before responding (Proverbs 18:16; James 1:19), and demonstrate the Christlike virtue of mourning with those who mourn.

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Losing a spouse is without a doubt one of the most difficult things any of us could ever go through. Pastor Scott shares how losing her husband quickly changed her life -- including her prayer life. And how God restored her to ministry for Him. Pastor Marilyn Scott is Associate Pastor for Children and Women's Ministries at the Spencerville Seventh-day Adventist Church.

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Prayer for Mercy

Lamentations 5

1Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

3We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

4We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.

5Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.

6We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

7Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

8Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.

9We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

11They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.

12Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.

13They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.

14The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.

15The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

16The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!

17For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.

18Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.

19Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.

20Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?

21Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

22But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.