(RNS) — A fund has been set up to benefit the family of the late Darrin Patrick, a megachurch pastor and author who died Thursday (May 7).
Patrick, 49, left behind his wife, Amie, and four children.
A link to the fund can be found on the website of Charleston, South Carolina-based Seacoast Church and at GiveSendGo. Patrick was a teaching pastor at the church.
“All the funds collected will go to the family,” said Greg Surratt, founding pastor of Seacoast and a longtime friend of Patrick and his family. Surrat, the founding pastor of Seacoast and longtime friend, had just returned from St. Louis, where he spent time comforting Patrick’s family.
Since the news broke of Patrick’s death, Surratt said, churches and church members have been rallying around the family.
Amie Patrick posted a message on her late husband’s Twitter account, expressing thanks to friends and supporters.
“Your kind remembrances of him, photos, stories and encouraging words are healing to our souls,” she wrote.
In the days after getting the call about Patrick’s passing, Surratt said he has been through a range of emotions — grief and anger, sadness and guilt.
“I have cried more in the last 24 hours than I have in the last 24 years,” he said.
When Patrick was fired in 2016 from the Journey Church in St. Louis, Surratt helped lead him through a restoration process that lasted for several years. That led eventually to…
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