About 600 people filled Maple Ridge Baptist Church on Saturday afternoon to remember Crystal Alexandra Weaver.

The 18-year-old was killed last weekend in a horrific crash on Dewdney Trunk Road that left two teenagers dead, four others injured, and countless family members and friends left grieving.

The church’s reception area was decorated with a number of mementos from Crystal’s life, including a tiara, framed pictures of her with loved ones, an adult-sized pink onesie with feet, her pink grad dress, several pieces of her jewelry, and her Harry Potter scarf.

At the front of the church a single portrait of Crystal in a graduation gown sat next to a large pink flower arrangement. Nineteen bundles of balloons lined the wall behind. She would have turned 19 two days ago, on Feb. 9.

Crystal was remembered as a caring and compassionate young woman, who was mature beyond her years.

“She was born to be a star, I was told,” said officiating pastor Don Schuilling.

Several people got up to share some memories about Crystal, the first two being Krista Fulton and Andrea Sitter. (Andrea was in the crash that killed her friend and seriously injured Jessica Small.)

“We became inseparable. I don’t know how I’m going to go on without her. She will live vicariously through me,” said Krista.

Andrea said Crystal was “an angel in training all along.”

“She is everywhere you look... She has always been a star. That girl belonged on a stage,” said Andrea.

Crystal, who had a penchant for “old-lady sweaters,” loved performing on stage and helping behind the scenes, was also remembered by a former teacher at Garibaldi Secondary, where she graduated from in 2011.

Michael Hanlon read from a letter of reference he wrote for Crystal back on Nov. 13, 2010.

He spoke of her in glowing terms, and said he was grateful to have had her in one of his classes every year from Grade 8 through Grade 12.

Hanlon was accompanied by a guitarist and three teenage girls singing back-up, as he sang Total Eclipse of the Heart and Call It Off.

Crystal recently returned to Maple Ridge from Prince George, where she was studying medicine at university and where she took part in a program called Bridging the Gap.

Bridging the Gap helped her understand her relationship with her faith, Schuiling said.

She was planning on being baptized this spring and was working on her baptism testimony, which was found on her computer.

Crystal wrote that she had been searching for her passion for God and found it during her last week at Bridging the Gap. She wrote that she felt passion and sang with hands high. The song she was listening to when she felt her passion for God grow is titled The Stand.

During worship director Julia Ziegler’s rendition of The Stand, many people in the church lifted their arms just as Crystal had, just as she wrote about in her testimony.

She wanted to start a program like Bridging the Gap in Maple Ridge.

The service ended with a DVD of Crystal’s life in pictures flashing past to the songs 1234 by Fiest, Free Falling by Tom Petty, and If I Die Young by The Band Perry.

No photographs were taken during the service to honour the family’s request.