You may have seen this on the news, but there has been a school shooting at Virginia Tech this morning. This kind of thing is always terrible news, but this time it strikes a little closer to home. One of our sister churches NLCF (this is a campus church at V-Tech) finds themselves right in the midst of it.
The pastors there are close friends of mine and we’re working together along with a few other churches in the US on the beginnings of a new network of missional churches called Ecclesia.
Please be in prayer, not only for the entire town of Blacksburg, VA, but especially for the church and the pastors as they work through this awful tragedy. I spoke with Jim Pace, a pastor there, for less than a minute, as you can imagine he couldn’t talk long. We are unsure if any of the church members were injured. However, with a church of over 1000 people, you can imagine that this will impact them for some time.
Thanks for your prayers…
UPDATE: Jim Pace (mentioned above) was invited to appear on Larry King Live tonight. I seriously can’t think of a better person to represent the Christian community than Jim. Show starts at 9:00pm Eastern.
UPDATE #2: JR Woodward, a good friend of mine, is with the pastors at NLCF today and is giving updates from his blog. JR is a great guy who actually helped plant the church and has since moved to Hollywood to plant there. He’s on the East Coast this week so he’s able to be down with his extended community. Please continue to pray…