Around 600 people have begun a silent procession to a church service for missing five-year-old April Jones who disappeared on Monday.
The procession started from her family home on the Bryn-y-Gog estate in Machynlleth, Powys.
It will lead to a service at 11:00 BST at St Peter's Church led by the Bishop of Bangor the Rt Rev Andrew John.
Mark Bridger has been charged with murder, child abduction and attempting to pervert the course of justice.
Mr Bridger is due before magistrates in Aberystwyth on Monday.
Many of those families and children gathered to take part in the procession have dressed in pink or are wearing pink ribbons - the colour said to be April's favourite.
Speaking before the service, Bishop John said the service was being held as "people are carrying bruises" and to show that "there is good, love and compassion to be shared".
"The community is looking for an opportunity to come together... to show there is good and there is compassion to be shared, that there is light in darkness."
He said churches from "all over the world" had been in touch because they had seen what has been happening in Machynlleth.
The procession is expected to pass by dozens of pink ribbons pinned up around the town and it is expected the colour will feature heavily in the church service.
Order of service leaflets in pink will be handed out at the church and parish priest Reverend Kathleen Rogers is expected to take a leading part.
- Hymn in Welsh: Morning Has Broken
- Prayers (Lord's Prayer)
- Hymn in English
- Reading (Luke 25-37 The Good Samaritan)
- Prayers
- Psalm 23: The Lord Is My Shepherd
- Hymn 3: Guide Me, O Thou Great Redeemer
- Meditation: The Right Rev Andy John
- Book Of Hope
- April's Candle
- Hymn 4: All Things Bright And Beautiful
- Blessing
Readings, some by teachers from April's school, are also expected at the service where people have already started arriving.
Speaking before the service, the Rev Rogers said the community still had hope.
"We have hope and that hope today that little April is safe in Jesus's arms," she said.
She said the service was "trying to bring the community together in God's love."
Around 400 leaflets have been printed for the service, and speakers set up outside the church for those who cannot get inside.
'Methodical search'Police, who continue to search for the missing girl, say they have been "overwhelmed" by the response of the local community and other volunteers.
Hundreds have taken part in the search for the girl in the rugged countryside around the town.
On Saturday, 10 specialist search teams carried out a systematic and methodical search in and around the town.
But on Sunday, Dyfed-Powys Police Supt Ian John said that it was likely that the mountain rescue searches would be scaled down within the next day or so with the focus becoming more police led.
Until then he said teams were continuing to comb the area.
"We've got a full contingent of police search teams and mountain rescue teams and they are all getting ready to go out. The weather is set fair so they are all really focused on getting on with this search," he said about the efforts on Sunday.
"The mountain rescue team are here with us today but it is fair to say they will be scaling down their search in the next day or so but the police search intensifies.
"It is very much focusing in and around the Machynlleth area and we'll see more focused, smaller scale searches in and around the town," he said.
Speaking of the scaling down of the mountain rescue searches, he added: "Logistically that's likely to be scaled down... and moving more towards the police search teams which are going to increase - almost double in number to what we had just a couple of days ago."
Dyfed-Powys Police Chief Constable Jackie Roberts, speaking on Saturday, said the inquiry had been one of the "most complex and fast moving" in the history of the force "and one our communities have never had to face before".
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Chief Constable Jackie Roberts and Superintendent Ian John say the search for April will continue
"It has been marked by the coming together of people from across the country with one aim in mind, to return April to her family," she said.
"The community of Machynlleth and the surrounding areas turned out in force using social networks to get the message out and appeal for April's safe return.
"In the meantime our efforts to find April will be as meticulous as they have been from the outset of this inquiry until we have exhausted all available options."
Mark Bridger, 46, was arrested the day after April went missing from near her home in Machynlleth.
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