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Earlier this week, Truett Foster McKeehan — who performed as Shiloh, truDog, and TRU — died suddenly of cardiac arrest at the age of 21. Kevin Michael McKeehan, better known as TobyMac, shared a heart-wrenching statement after the sudden death of his son, along with the moving last text messages between them. TobyMac stood by his faith in God despite this tragedy.

Hello everyone, As some of you know, we lost our younger daughter on January 15,2004 due to complications of Crohn's Disease. I have known since then that I was going to have a mission of some sort. I belong to a support group on the internet. I have been reading the many letters of despair, of people loosing faith in God due to the loss of a child, and of people all over the country simply needing help. There was one message that really touched me and I knew right then that I had to do something to help these...