Pastor who lost wife, daughter in Kentucky church shooting makes defiant return

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Pastor Jerry Gumm addresses his congregation at Richmond Road Baptist Church in Lexington, Ky., on Sunday August 17, 2025. He was critically injured after a gunman attacked his church on Sunday July 13, 2025. His wife Beverly Gumm and one of their daughters, Christina Combs, were fatally shot by the gunman during the attack. | Screenshot/Facebook/Jerry Gumm

Jerry Gumm, the 81-year-old pastor of Richmond Road Baptist Church in Lexington, Kentucky, who was critically injured and lost his wife and a daughter during a mass shooting at the church last month, says he won’t let the devil stop his praise. He urged his congregants to do the same.

In a defiant return Sunday to the church where his wife, Beverly Gumm, 72, and one of their daughters, Christina Combs, 32, were fatally shot on July 13, the recovering pastor offered his congregants comfort and inspiration.

“I’m going to say it like Mark Twain said, ‘The reports of my demise have been greatly exaggerated.' I was supposed to be dead. He got two of us but didn’t kill all of us. And I’m thankful he didn’t get none of the rest of you,” Pastor Gumm told his flock barely two days after he was released from a local hospital, where he spent about a month recovering from injuries.

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Pastor who lost wife, daughter in Kentucky church shooting makes defiant return

Jerry Gumm, the 81-year-old pastor of Richmond Road Baptist Church in Lexington, Kentucky, who was critically injured and lost his wife and a daughter during a mass shooting at the church last month,

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May God bless him in his love!

 

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Pastor Jerry Gumm addresses his congregation at Richmond Road Baptist Church in Lexington, Ky., on Sunday August 17, 2025. He was critically injured after a gunman attacked his church on Sunday July 13, 2025. His wife Beverly Gumm and one of their daughters, Christina Combs, were fatally shot by the gunman during the attack. | Screenshot/Facebook/Jerry Gumm

Jerry Gumm, the 81-year-old pastor of Richmond Road Baptist Church in Lexington, Kentucky, who was critically injured and lost his wife and a daughter during a mass shooting at the church last month, says he won’t let the devil stop his praise. He urged his congregants to do the same.

In a defiant return Sunday to the church where his wife, Beverly Gumm, 72, and one of their daughters, Christina Combs, 32, were fatally shot on July 13, the recovering pastor offered his congregants comfort and inspiration.

“I’m going to say it like Mark Twain said, ‘The reports of my demise have been greatly exaggerated.' I was supposed to be dead. He got two of us but didn’t kill all of us. And I’m thankful he didn’t get none of the rest of you,” Pastor Gumm told his flock barely two days after he was released from a local hospital, where he spent about a month recovering from injuries.

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Pastor who lost wife, daughter in Kentucky church shooting makes defiant return

Jerry Gumm, the 81-year-old pastor of Richmond Road Baptist Church in Lexington, Kentucky, who was critically injured and lost his wife and a daughter during a mass shooting at the church last month,

www.christianpost.com

God bless him.