MARYLAND HEIGHTS, Mo. – The Christian community is leaning on its faith as they mourn and remember political activist Charlie Kirk. Grace Church, located in Maryland Heights, hosted Kirk’s Save America Tour back in 2022.

“It was a day filled with excitement,” Pastor Marty Haas, Grace Church, said. “Everybody was eager to hear what he had to say.”

Kirk’s tour took him across the country as he held events at universities and public spaces to have conversations on religion and politics.

“They heard him articulate, to put into words, things that they had felt themselves but had not been able to express and were just thrilled to hear a good way to explain their own convictions,” Haas said.

Haas said when their church heard the news, it felt like “it was a gut punch.”

Haas said his death le

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