In wake of tragedy, VA Tech students find solace in GodJim Brown
OneNewsNow.comApril 17, 2007
As students on the Virginia Tech campus attempt to make sense of the pain they are feeling from yesterday's horrific shooting rampage, Christian ministries are extending hope and comfort to them.
A few short hours after the shootings, more than 300 students on the Blacksburg campus took part in a prayer and worship gathering organized by the Baptist Collegiate Ministries at Virginia Tech. BCM director Darrell Cook says his ministry is helping students "focus on the goodness and grace of God" in the midst of an unspeakable tragedy.
Last night's vigil, says Cook, "was a great kind of first step to get students talking through their grief and coming back to, that at the end of the day, there's a good God who can make sense of their pain and who can help them somehow walk through what is pretty dark right now." According to the ministry director, a member of the Baptist Collegiate Ministries -- a graduate student named Brian -- was among those killed yesterday.
Cook says students who gathered divided into small groups for prayer throughout the ministry building. "We just want students to be able to focus [on] and come back to the goodness and the grace of God in the midst of just a horrible and unspeakable day," he shares. "At the end of it all, we just want them to come back to a trustworthy God who's going walk them through it."
Cook says Baptist Collegiate Ministries will be holding a student-led worship and then walk together to a candlelight vigil on campus tonight.
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