“I know exactly why God did this. It may sound strange to you, but this isn’t senseless to me at all,” Mark’s father said, quoting scripture at the memorial service. “Unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a simple seed, but if it dies it produces many seeds.”…. funeral services for Mark will be held Wednesday afternoon at Tabb Church.

Norfolk, Va. – Hundreds of people filled the Norfolk Christian Schools auditorium to remember student Mark Rodriguez.

“The goodness you saw in Mark was simply a window you were peering through and seeing the goodness of God,” said Mark’s father, Carlos Rodriguez, who is a pastor at Redeemer Presbyterian Church of Virginia Beach.

“I know exactly why God did this. It may sound strange to you, but this isn’t senseless to me at all,” Mark’s father said, quoting scripture at the memorial service. “Unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a simple seed, but if it dies it produces many seeds.”

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