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One of our policemen at the church grabbed me first thing this morning.
“There’s been a shooting in Arvada at YWAM.”
A few hours later we would hear about another shooting at New Life in Colorado Springs.
I’m about to go to bed and I’ve really got nowhere to file this. I live in America, not the Sudan or Pakistan. I’ve read and prayed for other churches in places I’ve never been who deal with this weekly. They don’t have a public place to meet, can’t publicize their whereabouts because they are constant targets of this kind of violence.
Now it’s in my backyard…and I’m stuck somewhere between despair and anger.
We pray for the families at YWAM and New Life.
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1 wayne // Dec 10, 2007 at 7:30 am
I saw the reports of this yesterday evening on the web. To be honest, I was a little numb to the news at first — like you said, this is America — but it seems these things are happening more and more — schools, churches, etc — nothing is sacred anymore.
The thing I found even more alarming was the fact that there was an armed security guard at the church. Granted, that turned out to be a good thing in this case — but who would have thought that would have ever been needed and actually have put that in place.
2 kris // Dec 10, 2007 at 12:08 pm
yes … unbelievable ….
thought of you, your family and your church yesterday as i realized you may have known people affected by this tragedy.
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