Family of missing 19-year-old Winston-Salem man holds prayer meeting as search continues

IT CAN HAPPEN YOUR WAY. FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF 19-YEAR-OLD GAME MISSING SINCE MAY 31 SAYS THEY KEEP THEIR FAITH THAT HE WILL COME HOME. WINSTON-SALEM. POLICE SAY KAYDEN ALLEN WAS A PASSENGER IN A CAR. They were trying to stop that night. OFFICERS lost sight of the car but found it abandoned a short time later at Grant Park Quarry. ALLEN HAS NOT BEEN SEEN SINCE A PRAYER VIGIL IN HIS HONOR WAS HELD AT THE PARK THIS EVENING. OUR JOSHUA DAVIS TALKED TO HIS COUSIN AND HAD MORE ABOUT THE FAMILY'S MESSAGE TO HIM. WE KNOW HIM AS A FATHER, A FATHER. WE. KNOW HIM AS A FRIEND. BUT THERE ARE A LOT OF FAMILY PRAYERS RIGHT NOW. WE DON’T LOSE HOPE. KADEN ALLEN, 19, HAS BEEN MISSING FOR THE PAST NINE DAYS. INVESTIGATORS CONTINUE TO INTEREST INTO CARY IN GRANT PARK, WHERE HE WAS LAST SEEN ON SUNDAY. FAMILY AND FRIENDS GATHERED IN PRAYER. We felt like it was necessary to, you know, bring a little peace, bring a little joy and increase, you know, hope and awareness that KADEN IS STILL THERE. COURTNEY BARMORE, ONE OF KAYDEN'S COUSINS, SAYS HIS DISAPPEARANCE WAS DEVASTATING TO HER FAMILY AND FRIENDS. THEY'RE ALL MISSING A MAN, WHO IS SAID, BROUGHT A LOT OF LOVE TO THE PEOPLE HE WAS CLOSE TO. EVERY TIME WE SAW KADEN HE GAVE US A HUG AND A HUG HAS NEVER FADE AWAY FROM AGE. You know he'll always walk into a room a little shyer, but you still have that. HEY. AND THIS HUG. Um, it always brings, you know, joy and there was this hug. THERE WAS THIS SMILE. There was this, hey, only Kaden can give more than anything. THEY WANT THEIR SON, GRANDSON, UNCLE, FATHER, COUSIN AND FRIEND TO BACK HOME. KADEN, IF YOU HEAR US, IF YOU SEE US, WE WILL NOT GIVE UP. WE WILL CONTINUE TO RESEARCH. THERE IS LOVE HERE. AND THIS FAMILY IS ALL ABOUT LOVE. Your God is running after me to Winston-Salem. I'm Joshua Davis for WXII. 12 NEWS. AUTHORITIES STRESS THAT KADEN