Second Event: The pastor leads the parishioners in prayer, asking the Lord to "help us to make sense of why something so senseless happens."
Written by Daniel John (parishioner from 2003 to 2007)
Those of us, who believed that we would receive the answer to our pastor's prayer [1], would have searched for the reason why our altar was overturned, by reading newspaper articles about the incident. We would have been most interested in the three articles below, especially the parts of each article that are highlighted in yellow.
[1] "Church-service assault", Decatur Daily, 10/3/2005
[2] "'Vision' spurred church assault", Decatur Daily, 10/4/2005
[3] "Rites and wrongs: 'God allowed us to be His puppets'", Huntsville Times, 10/16/2005