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Prayer For The Lancaster,pa Community

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Posted by: diamondcreates

Father God - bless each and every family in the Lancaster, Pa community that has endure this horrible ordeal this week. Bless those families whom have injuried members and those whom have lost a lost one. Father God - bless the family of the man whom committed these horrible sins onto YOUR children for something that had 'happened to him 20 years ago' we know not what that sin was - but his sin took away so much more Lord with so many unanswered questions for these suffering families. Father God - I ask YOU to heal their minds, and their souls, and keep these many families on the path of righteousness and not turn onto another path that they should not be on. This I pray in YOUR holy ever lasting name Lord, Amen,Amen,Amen... Be bless family of God, be bless.


Posted by: MarkSentMe

I have read with great renewal and hope, several news stories about this during this week. What a testimony and witness this community has been! Their quickness to forgive and eagerness to embrace the killer's family humbles me. Their reserve and decorum throughout this tragedy has glorified God and is an example of what a Christian should be.

Father God,
I hold up the families and the community who have suffered this tragedy. Please comfort them and continue to be with them. I hold up the family of Charles Carl Roberts IV. Lord, please comfort them and be with them. Please heal the hurting hearts of all of those involved. Thank You, Lord. Amen.

Sharyn


Posted by: Rachel R

This tragedy is an example of how dangerous thinking can be.

This man allowed his dreams and thoughts and imaginings to go on.

Then it was too late and the people are dead and he is dead and his family is destoyed.

He could have chosen another path and saved lives.

He had no idea that it would come to this.

He is REALLY sorry now.

But it is too late.

Take control and give it to Jesus.

He will help you.


Lord, I thank you for the amazing faith pouring out of this tragedy.

I pray for these dear girls who were harmed and are in the hospital.

Heal the hearts of everyone touched by this.

Take this awful thing and show us all how to heal and how to use it as blessing somehow.

In Jesus' Name, Amen.



Posted by: diamondcreates

I agree with you sister Rachel, that if more communities were compassionate as this community. Showing God's grace, mercy and love, even towards the one whom caused all this grief in this community, there will be less war, less hate, less of so much negative environment in this country - and in this world. Its sad to think that this man's soul could have been saved --- but unfortunately I feel his soul now belongs to the devil himself for the act he committed on not just these children but by taking his life himself. We must pray even for this man's family because they are now victims to this event with so many questions going through their heads, and no answer to go with them.


Father God - continue to bless each family member that has been effect by this tragedy. Lord God, we come to YOU asking to lift every member from this community and beyond. Allow this community Lord to be an example of YOUR love, and forgiveness of another's sin, and to embrace the other with opened arms with prayers in their hearts. This I pray in YOUR holy ever lasting name Father God, Amen, Amen, Amen... Be bless family of God, be blessed in every thing that you according to HIS will. Amen.


Posted by: youngijp

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Originally Posted by MarkSentMe
I have read with great renewal and hope, several news stories about this during this week. What a testimony and witness this community has been! Their quickness to forgive and eagerness to embrace the killer's family humbles me. Their reserve and decorum throughout this tragedy has glorified God and is an example of what a Christian should be.
Father God,
I hold up the families and the community who have suffered this tragedy. Please comfort them and continue to be with them. I hold up the family of Charles Carl Roberts IV. Lord, please comfort them and be with them. Please heal the hurting hearts of all of those involved. Thank You, Lord. Amen.
Sharyn
Amen.

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Originally Posted by Rachel R
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Lord, I thank you for the amazing faith pouring out of this tragedy. I pray for these dear girls who were harmed and are in the hospital. Heal the hearts of everyone touched by this. Take this awful thing and show us all how to heal and how to use it as blessing somehow.
In Jesus' Name, Amen.
Amen.

Quote:
Originally Posted by diamondcreates
(EXCERPT)....
Father God - continue to bless each family member that has been effect by this tragedy. Lord God, we come to YOU asking to lift every member from this community and beyond. Allow this community Lord to be an example of YOUR love, and forgiveness of another's sin, and to embrace the other with opened arms with prayers in their hearts. This I pray in YOUR holy ever lasting name Father God, Amen, Amen, Amen... Be bless family of God, be blessed in every thing that you according to HIS will. Amen.
Amen.

www . faithandaction . org/100506AmishForgiveness . htm
AMISH FUNERALS OPPORTUNITY TO DEMONSTRATE POWER OF FORGIVENESS
10/5/06
Five young girls aged 6-13 were killed Monday at the Nickel Mines Amish school.
Five other girls still remain hospitalized with serious injuries.
Minister Who Has Private Contact with Mourning Amish Available for Comment During Funerals
Faith and Action president Rev. Rob Schenck traveled from Washington, DC, this week to minister to families of Amish school shooting victims as well as the family of shooter Charles Roberts. The Evangelical minister was one of only two non-Amish invited to the very private mourning ritual for one victim and watched as her mother prepared her daughter's body for burial. He said the funerals which will occur today and tomorrow are opportunities to understand what is at the heart of Amish culture.
Rev. Schenck said, "It was while the family and community stood watching this mother tenderly care for her little girl's brutally damaged body that they spoke to me at length of forgiving the shooter. It was the most moving thing I've seen or heard in my 25 years as a minister of the Gospel. It was a living sermon on the power of God's mercy."
One Amish religious leader explained to Schenck, "We forgive because God has forgiven us. God extends his forgiveness to us in Christ, then, we must receive it. Once we do, we must share it with others."
Schenck said the Amish base their ethic of forgiveness on the Sermon on the Mount in which Jesus said, "For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you."
Schenck said one of the most impressive parts of his visit with Shooter Charles Roberts' family was their reception of forgiveness from the families of their son's victims.
"Out of guilt and shame, the Roberts family could have rejected that generous offer of forgiveness, but they instead accepted it. I don't think there's a better illustration of the Christian message in the Gospel. As the Amish say, God extends his forgiveness to us for our sins, but we must receive it. That's the essence of salvation. Only then can we pass that forgiveness on."
Schenck, who returned to Washington last night, will return to Lancaster today to visit with more families during funerals today and tomorrow. He is available for further comment.
Schenck, who served as a chaplain at Ground Zero in New York after 9/11 and visited New Orleans church leaders in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, said this experience was for him on the same level of emotional trauma of those two tragedies.
Rev. Rob Schenck on FoxNews' Greta Van Susteren (10/6/06)
Rev. Rob Schenck Featured on CNN's Larry King Live
NBC News' Ann Curry Blog Report With Rev. Schenck
On Pat Robertson's CBN News
Christian Today www . christiantoday . com/article/worship . service . for . amish . victims . led . by . michael . w . smith/7866 . htm
Delaware Online www . delawareonline . com/apps/pbcs . dll/article?AID=/20061005/NEWS/61005006
....At 9 a.m., services began for 7-year-old Naomi Rose Ebersole. A second service will begin at 1 p.m. and lay to rest Marian Fisher, 13. The two Miller sisters, Mary Liz, 8 and Lena, 7, will be remembered together at a service today at 2 p.m. The funeral for a fifth girl, Anna Mae Stoltzfus, 12, is scheduled for Friday.....
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel www . jsonline . com/story/index . aspx?id=510262
An unusual word has come to dominate TV coverage of the terrible murders of five girls in a one-room schoolhouse in Pennsylvania's Amish country.
Forgiveness.
Chris Cuomo used it Wednesday on ABC's "Good Morning America," reporting that the "Amish believe others will see a glimpse of Christ's love in their forgiveness, an instinct that is galvanizing this community."
That evening, introducing an interview with an Amish scholar about the reaction to the killings on "The CBS Evening News," correspondent Byron Pitts said, "In much of America, such forgiveness would be unimaginable."
That night on CNN, Larry King explored the concept with the Rev. Rob Schenck, president of the National Clergy Council.
"How do you explain, Reverend, the Amish's forgiveness of the killer?" King asked.
"The Sermon on the Mount is really their code, their Christian code," he explained. "And in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus admonished us in that sermon, he said that we needed to forgive others as God forgives us. That we have to be careful to forgive others their sins against us, or God will not forgive us."
This focus on forgiveness in the coverage comes from a sect that's often portrayed as an eccentric remnant of the past, thanks to their antique style of dress and archaic reliance on horse-and-buggy transportation.
There continues to be plenty of video that reinforces that picturesque quality, a dramatic counterpoint to the horror of the murders of five girls. But this focus on one of the central tenets of Christianity (it's not limited to the Amish) is fascinating - and telling....
www . faithandaction . org/
(10/6/2006) From Rev. Rob Schenck: "The families of the slain children here in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, have told me that they are "living by the prayers being offered for them." I told them I know thousands of our friends are praying for them daily. Since the Amish do not use computers, the families asked us to ask all our Faith And Action friends to E-mail their prayers and condolences, then asked if we would give them a print out. I assured them I would."
Please send us your prayers and other messages for these families. We will print them out and prepare binders to hand deliver to the families of each of the girls. Please send these messages to: http://www . faithandaction . org/

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