Please be praying for the families of Appalachee High School. The was a shooting early this morning at the school and this school is 15 minutes from us and Winder is a small town. This is just not something you'd ever expect. 2 teachers, 2 students are deceased and possibly 9 or more injured. They locked down all the schools in the county (only 2 HS's) and canceled classes for all Barrow County schools for the week.

The shooter (if thats the only one) was Colt Gray, 14 yrs old. They have stated he will be charged as an adult but I want to ask you to pray. If this was your child, would you feel he should be charged as an adult when he is a young teen that as we all know, have hormones new to him, emotions, and if he had hurt in his life, he felt he couldnt talk to anyone or he was ignored, we dont know at this time.

As Christians, I feel we need to see this through Christ's eyes. This boy has a chance to be saved by Christ and rehabilitated. There is a huge difference between an 18 yr old and 14yr old boy. I ask you to pray for the parents, families and Colt. There are a lot of angry people. We could see the local comments, even my neighborhood fb group and local town facebook group. Pray that God would surround this family (Grays) with Christians that can share Christ and uplift them through this time. As for all the students and families of AHS, please be praying.

The local county sheriff grew up in that county and went to school in this county and his kids do too and he said "My heart hurts for our community. But I want to make it very clear that hate will not prevail in this county. ... Love will prevail over what happened today."

Also be praying for all the law enforcement as they have so much to deal with to get to the truth and why and what happened.

Thank you for praying!

Jen