Dec 10 2007
Pray for New Life Church and YWAM
Please keep the folks at New Life in prayer following the shooting incident here yesterday. Two church members were killed and three injured. The gunman was killed by a security guard.
From the Rocky Mountain News:
Man opens fire, kills 2 at New Life Church in Colorado Springs
COLORADO SPRINGS — A gunman opened fire at a Colorado Springs church today, killing two people and injuring three others before he was shot and killed by a church security officer.
The conditions of the those wounded at the New Life Church were not immediately released at a news conference shortly before 6 p.m.
The dead were church members, officials said.
Lance Coles, a pastor at New Life Church, told The Associated Press he received a report that a man was shooting at people in the church parking lot and that the gunman entered the church shortly after 1 p.m.
Police soon said they believed the shooter was “down” inside the church’s main sanctuary.
Hundreds remained locked in church buildings as police conducted what they said was a precautionary search for additional gunmen, police Lt. Fletcher Howard said.
The two victims were sisters, 16 and 18 years old. There is still no word whether the incident was related to another shooting the same day at the Youth With a Mission (YWAM) facility in Arvada (a Denver suburb an hour north). Two missionaries were killed in that incident also.
“Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?” (Psalm 2:1, ESV)
December 12th, 2007 at 15:55 pm
We have a YWAM base in our hometown, and one of the main caretaker couples up there go to our church. MM and I have only been up there a few times, and I can say there are absolutely no security measures in place whatsoever. I imagine that will be changing soon; and it is so very sad that people who have dedicated their lives to helping people in dangerous places around the world, now find themselves unable to find a peaceful retreat here in the US.