RALEIGH - On Sunday, in a sanctuary where Cynthia Moreland quietly raised her hands in praise every week, members of Mount Peace Baptist Church did not dwell on the senselessness of her death or the justice they want done to her trespasser.

Instead, they resolved to help steer her family through this dark period.

A Harnett County woman found Moreland's body Friday afternoon behind an abandoned house outside the town limits of Coats. Law enforcement had been searching for the 48-year-old Wendell woman since she disappeared from a downtown Raleigh parking garage the morning of Aug. 22.

Antonio Davon Chance, a 29-year-old sex offender from Wake County, was charged with kidnapping Moreland after a store surveillance video caught him buying toiletries at a Dollar General with Moreland's debit card.

As of Sunday evening, Chance had not been charged with Moreland's death. Police would not say whether a pathologist had determined whether or how Moreland was killed.

"We want to be there for [Cynthia's family] as this nightmare comes to a close," Pastor J. Vincent Terry Sr. said as he led a crowd of nearly 200 through morning prayers.

Mention of Moreland, a technical design specialist for Progress Energy, was the one somber moment in a Sunday worship service punctuated with shouts of hallelujah and hearty singing.

Terry's congregation gathers not two blocks from where Moreland's Toyota Camry was ditched the day her disappearance launched a round-the-clock search. After nearly 10 days of misses, Raleigh Police made plans to turn to forces of volunteers to help search.

At Mount Peace Baptist Church on Friday, staff worked the phones to secure volunteers for the massive search planned for Saturday. Halfway through the phone tree, city officials called the church and asked them to hold off on the calls.

"They wouldn't say what was wrong, but we knew," Terry said.

Now the church is organizing food deliveries to the family. Terry said church members will meet with the family today to begin planning services for Moreland, a reserved but dedicated member of the church family.

Mount Peace Baptist Church had collected more than $10,000 to augment the reward offered for tips leading to Moreland's discovery. If it is not awarded to a person, Terry plans to turn the collection into a scholarship fund for her grandson, who is in the third grade.