Pastor Frank Pomeroy is running for state senate.

Pomeroy is running for office in Texas in efforts to influence gun laws after his14-year-old daughter, Annabelle, was killed in the shooting at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas in November 2017.

The First Baptist Church shooting has been recorded as the deadliest mass shooting in Texas history.

Pastor Pomeroy said the mass shooting in EL Paso, Texas this month, which killed 22 people, prompted him to get into politics, reports Premier.

“If I can bring civility and godliness and help stymie the downward spiralling of the great state of Texas, that’s what I’m choosing to do try to do ...

“I feel as though that morality and integrity is disappearing rapidly and I feel as though the direction Texas goes — if Texas falls, the country falls,” Pomeroy says.

The 53-year-old pastor has never held elected office before but says he has had many conversations about guns and other top political issues following the church massacre.

Pomeroy says, “This is totally out of my wheelhouse, but I'm totally trusting the Lord to show me how to do the things I need to do."