Tulsans Hold Prayer Vigil For California Shooting Victims, World Peace

In response to the shootings in California, today a group of Oklahoma pastors organized a prayer vigil at the Boston United Methodist Church in Tulsa.

They said incidents like the one in San Bernardino shouldn't be looked at as the new normal.

The day after the shootings, the main headline on the New York Daily News front page said “God isn’t fixing this.”

People at the vigil said that is not the way to think during times like these.

Organizers say the two dozen people who attended in Tulsa was a decent crowd considering it was held on short notice.

They say it's small groups like that which often make the biggest difference.

People spent part of the prayer vigil in groups. They brainstormed ideas on how the public can spark change first in their own communities.

There also was music, poetry and of course prayer.

Because of the mass shootings across the country over the past few months, people we spoke to at the vigil say now it's even more important to lean on your faith.

"There's nothing better than to pray shoulder to shoulder,” Amera Hammani said. “The interfaith community to get together and pray because you can't prevent the next shooting. And all we can really do is strengthen our bonds together and really strengthen our faith and pray. Pray pray, pray."

Organizers hope the praying doesn't stop at this vigil.

They hope people take the prayer to the community so that it can spread through the city, state and country.