This week's tragedy at Virginia Tech has gotten tons of media coverage all over the world, but much of it has avoided the spiritual dimension of the world we live in.
NLCF is a campus church that gathered 200 people downtown on Monday night to pray, mourn, and embrace. A poignantly honest prayer was read during the vigil, written by Terri Dewey, which began like this:
"Jesus, son of God, we need you now. Today we have been attacked, we have been broken, and we have been shocked as peace has been ripped away from our lives. We have feared. Jesus, our friends, our hallmates, our classmates... people we know have been unfairly hurt today. The innocent have died. We are confused." Read the full prayer here.
And, today, I talked with Josh Deng to check-in on what's happening there in terms of a Christian witness on the Virginia Tech campus. Josh is a Virginia Tech junior and on the leadership team of vtONE, an organization that unites the body of Christ at Virginia Tech in worship, prayer, and repentance. vtONE holds a semesterly worship event that draws some 800 people from many different campus ministries. Listen to this 8-minute interview about vtONE, how God has been showing up at that campus, and how we can pray specifically for them:
[Download MP3 audio of this interview]
Josh's blog also has several in-the-moment entries with his thoughts and feelings from earlier this week.
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