Absolutely awful to hear of the shooting at the YWAM base in Denver. 9News says two dead (pictured), one critical, another inured and the 80 other missionaries moved to Golden for the time being. Youth With a Mission is a great mission organization and I have had the priviledge of teaching on many of their training bases, but not Denver. Our prayers are with the families of those involved and the other missionaries. Avarda police are working hard to find the suspect.
Update: Apparently, the gunman at both Colorado shootings, Matthew Murray, was once enrolled in a DTS at YWAM but was let go for “health” reasons. ChristianPost has the skinny and Benediction is looking at it also.
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Another shooting happened 12 hours later at New Life Church in CO Springs; the sense right now is that the two are related. Father, have mercy.
Here’s an in depth story by the Associated Press http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071210/ap_on_re_us/church_shootings
It appears the boy attended the school and had been sendng it hate mail. Unclear what the connection is to New Life Church.
YWAM’s statements can be found here and I’ve