A Georgia pastor and father of two who once
confessed that sometimes "I don't feel like God is hearing me" killed
himself outside his home while his wife, kids and 800 member congregation
waited for him to show up for church on Sunday.
According to 13 WMAZ, Rev. Teddy Parker Jr., 42, of Bibb Mount Zion
Baptist Church in Macon, Ga., was discovered by his wife, Larrinecia Parker,
38, in the driveway of their Warner Robins house with a "self-inflicted
gunshot wound."
The Christian Post left messages for the family and
the church office on Tuesday and responses are still pending.
Lakesia Toomer, a church official, told WMAZ,
"We consider this a private matter between the family and the BMZ church
family. We kindly ask that the public respects our privacy at this time."
Russell Rowland, a member of the church who employs
the pastor's brother at his landscaping business, revealed to CP in a telephone
interview that the pastor had sent his wife and two daughters to church ahead
of him on Sunday morning and they were all waiting for him to show up with the
morning's message from God.
"When he didn't show up they went looking for
him," said Rowland. "I'm very surprised because he didn't preach
that. He preached totally against it. It's something that the congregation
don't really understand."
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Indeed the last days are here...whatever the situation I'm faced with, suicide is way out of the options available. God help us that are left on this earth.
Anyways It is also not in our place to judge the late pastor...after all, na person fit don kill am come make am be like say na suicide.
God dey sha.
blessings....
ReplyDeleteDespair can be a blanket that covers the eyes, the ears, the minds, the hearts and stifle hope and faith that blinds us to alternatives and snuff out options that may be sitting in front of us. It is why we must every be diligent and guard our hearts and minds. Its not easy, Lord alone knows that despair that nipped at his heels daily. He was not exempt from the trails and tribulations of life because he was a pastor. We are all human regardless of gender, class, ethnicity, religion and nationality and we all at times struggle with finding our place in this world. May he now get the rest and peace that escaped him in life.
peace.
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