Apr 19, 2024
BROOKINGS, SD (KELO)--On Friday many people in the Brookings community came together to celebrate the life of a young teen killed in a bus crash one week ago. Molly Yoder's family invited a KELOLAND news crew to be there for the funeral as they remembered who she was and shared some of her great faith. "Whatever my lot, thou has taught me to say, it is well, it is well with my soul," the congregation sang during Molly's funeral. Close Thanks for signing up! Watch for us in your inbox. Subscribe Now KELOLAND Breaking News SIGN UP NOW It's a song of praise 16-year-old Molly Yoder sang with her friends and family at Bible Baptist Church in Brookings where her father pastors. "If Molly were here she'd be right about where you're sitting in the second row," pastor Mike Forsberg said. The small church was filled with hundreds of people, some driving hundreds of miles from Lansing, Michigan where Molly and her seven siblings were born. "At the age of 7, Molly and family moved to Brookings, SD," Forsberg said while reading her obituary.  It's the community that would become her home by age 16 when Molly was just a few weeks away from getting her driver's license and using the car she bought thanks to her first job at Cupa Tea in Brookings. "She was on her way to work to pick up an unscheduled shift when the accident happened," Forsberg said. "In troubled times I know just where to stand, no safer place than in God's hands," some of Molly's family sang during her service. Despite the sorrow in the room... Unique skillset helps Goodbary earn Player of the Year nomination "A girl full of life with razor sharp wit who kept people laughing for than a bit," Molly's aunt Melissa Grady read from a poem during the funeral. ...Molly's friends and family were also celebrating her tender heart and great faith, clearly shown in her prayer journals read at the funeral. "Choose the right things, Molly writes, live for God, don't get distracted, be a witness for the world, and have compassion, make time for God," Forsberg read from Molly's notes. "This note caught my attention, this note reads, trust the Lord with all your heart, and right below that, as if it was a P.S., Molly wrote, and  it makes sense to trust somebody who has the past, who has the future and the present in his hand. Amen." The same faith that is holding the Yoder family through this difficult time. "What a day that will be, when my Jesus I shall see. What a day, glorious day that will be," the congregation sang. Molly was buried at Greenwood Cemetery following Friday's service in Brookings. 
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