It's really hard to rejoice your youth is alive and the parents next to you are grieving because their youth is not alive. It's hard to let them out of your sight. It's hard to realize that there really is very little you can do to protect them in such a crisis. Pray for my Sunday school class. Our teacher is Chip Gillette.
Chip just lives across the street from the church building.
He is a police officer. He was off-duty and home, making him the first officer on the scene. Chip is another hero in our church. Our class is made up entirely of parents of youth. Pray for this entire generation of teenagers.