More than 200 people gathered Thursday night for a Community Candlelight Prayer Vigil at First United Methodist Church in Warren after two Warren Area High School students died this week.

Those in attendance grieved. They cried. They hugged. They shared the flames and light of their candles. They stood as one community.

“We simply do not have the words,” the Rev. Dr. Mark Hecht, pastor of First United Methodist Church, said. “There is aching deep down inside us this night. Fear and sorrow. Anxiousness and anger.”

“We come together with tears for loved ones lost, recognizing that something is broken,” Hecht said. “It takes tragedy to get our attention. To realize that we do need one another.”

“Warren Area High School has experienced two student deaths this week,” according to a letter published Thursday from Warren County School District Superintendent Amy Stewart. “Our most sincere sympathies go out to the families and friends of those students.”

The district published a list of mental health service providers for those needing help with their grief.

“We don’t want anybody to be at home and not know what to do,” she said at the vigil. “We want to make sure everybody has some tools to be able to begin to heal.”

The list of service providers includes: Warren County Human Services, Family Services of Warren County, Beacon Light Outpatient Services, the Achievement Center, Sunrise Collaborative, Jada Swart (licensed professional counselor), Riverside Counseling LLC, Warren County Children’s Advocacy Center, the Trevor Project: Support and Crisis, and TransFamily NWPA.