Healing Ceremony

From left, Ashlyn Kouba, Hailey Miller, Travor Overbaugh and Nolan Arthur record a video message for Andrew Harper who was hurt in an accident on July 17 and badly burned.

More than 150 balloons wait for the get-well wishes of the community. Small message cards were tied to the balloons and floated into the air on Sunday evening.

Pastor Kevin Cherry of Heart o’ the Lakes Church in Brooklyn lead the group of people in a prayer, in which he prayed for God to heal the young men.

 

Friends of White and Harper signed T-shirts for the victims to be brought to the hospital.

Small cards like this one were tied to more than 150 balloons and released into the air on Sunday during a get-together of friends of White and Harper.

More than 150 friends of Samuel White and Andrew Harper released balloons on Sunday night with well wishes for the boys who are in the hospital after an automobile accident.

 

Chinese lanterns lit the skies and people hugged during the ceremony.

Andrew Harper’s stepfather James Sciarrabba floats a Chinese lantern into the sky during a ceremony where 150 people prayed for the accident victims.

  

Lynsey Morea and Darian Liogghio of Brooklyn sign T-shirts for the young men who were in an accident on July 17.

Andrew Harper’s mother Kris Scirrabba watches the glow of a lantern that was floated into the air on Sunday while friends of the boys gathered in the park.