Well, hello, I'm Jeff Kavens, and every week I'm here talking about the things that are going on in the body of Christ, growing in the Lord, studying Scripture.

One of the subjects that we talk about quite often, one that I'm very interested in, is suffering.

And today we went through quite a bit in the Twin Cities, Minneapolis, St. Paul, where I'm at.

And I was just ready to record my show this week for you. And there was a news flash in that there

was an active shooter at Annunciation School in Minneapolis, just a few miles from where I'm at

right now. And it gripped the entire Twin Cities.

And then I found out later that it was gripping the world. The world was responding to the tragedy

at the enunciation school. And, you know, when things like this happen, you realize just how connected we all are in the

body of Christ. I know we're a big church, but there seems to be that seven degrees of game,

you know, that people play where somebody knows somebody that was there or somebody knows somebody that used to go to that

school or whatever it might be. And we find out that we're very connected. Today, rather than doing

the show that I had prepared for you, I'd like to talk to you just for a few minutes about my

perspective, my connection, and the response to this.

The school and the church are actually part of my past here in the Twin Cities.

As a youngster growing up in my early grade school years, we went to anunciation.

It's right off of 35W south of Minneapolis. My parents brought me there.

Bishop Paul Dudley was a pastor at the time there. And I remember it very, very well,

going to church there on a regular basis. And so I have that connection to the church and to the

school that this tragedy took place. Two beautiful young

children were killed and over 15 people hospitalized and some of them in critical condition

and a local shooter who is the one who did the deed here. That's the school I went to,

that's the church that I went to, I should say, when I was growing up.

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