Posted on 12/11/2007 5:35:12 AM PST by Sopater
Col. Jeanne Assam said her hands were steady as she aimed her gun at a young man firing a high-powered rifle in the crowded foyer of the New Life Church.
And she prayed for divine guidance.
I was given the assignment to end this before it got too much worse, the volunteer security guard said yesterday, a day after police say the same man killed four people at the church and a missionary training school in a nearby city.
I just said, Holy Spirit, be with me, Assam said. My hands werent even shaking.
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Yes, she saved many lives. What an evil guy.
My prayer was 'God protect those I love if I fall'.
Assam is a Sanskrit word that means “Peerless”.Indeed.
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