Family and Faith Magazine January 2015 | Page 27

FAITH SCARY, Then Not So Scary By Family and Faith Magazine Child Writer, Nia-Ashley Harris Women’s Resource & Outreach Centre O NE NIGHT, MY FAMILY WAS AT HOME. We were watching television. Suddenly, we heard constant ADVANCING THE EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES gunshots. My mother told my sister Zoe and I to lie down on the floor so if gunshots came in the house we would be on the ground and the bullets couldn’t hurt us. My sister SERVICES & PROGRAMMES OFFERED: and I were very scared, but our parents seemed calm and protective. That was so unusual to me. HOMEWORK CENTRE Mondays to Thursdays, 2:00p.m. – 5:00p.m. Anyway, while we were lying down on the ground, daddy turned off all the lights, so that the person who was shooting • Homework Assistance the gun wouldn’t see us. I was glad my youngest sister, Sarah • Beginner Mathematics, English & Reading $1500 per month was sleeping because she would have made too much noise and the gunman might hear her. When daddy came back from turning off all the lights, I started to pray. I asked the Lord to stop the person who ݅́͡