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I am not going to apologize for speaking the name of Jesus... If I have
to sacrifice everything... I will. – Rachel Scott
[PHOTO SOURCE: http://www.azquotes.com/quote/1224912]
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AUTHOR: Rachel Joy Scott (August 5, 1981 – April 20,
1999) was an American student and the first murder victim of the Columbine High School massacre,
which claimed the lives of 11 other students and a teacher as well as both
perpetrators.
She
has since been the subject of several books and is the inspiration for Rachel's Challenge, an international school
outreach program and the most popular school assembly program in America. Its
aim is to advocate Scott's belief, based on her life, her journals, and
the contents of a two-page essay penned just a month before her murder entitled
My Ethics; My Codes of Life which advocates her belief in compassion
being "the greatest form of love humans have to offer".
Owing
to the fact both Scott and Anne Frank died at a young age through the intolerance
and hatred of others, and that both girls had written of their wishes to change
the world for the better through the simple acts of love and kindness, parallels
have been drawn by her uncle, among others, between the journals she wrote in
her short lifespan and Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl.
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Rachel Scott in 1997
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Columbine
Remembered in New Movie on Faith, Hope, Forgiveness
09-11-2016
Nearly two
decades after her death at Columbine, Rachel Scott's faith is touching hearts
and lives in a new movie about hope and forgiveness.
Rachel Scott
was just like any other 17-year-old. She worried about school, work, and
graduating from high school. The life she knew came to a sudden halt in 1999
when Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold murdered her in the notorious Columbine
shooting.
Scott was the
first of 11 other students who were killed by their fellow classmates. Before
she was fatally shot, one of the gunmen asked her if she believed in God. She
answered 'yes' knowing she would pay for that answer with her life.
Scott often
wrote about her relationship with Jesus and desire for compassion in her
journal. Years later, that journal is now the basis of a new film title I'm
Not Ashamed.
Although
Scott is not alive today, her passion for those who do not know Christ is seen
loud and clear in this movie.
"For
the potential of this to reach the unreached, which was what her desire was –
to see souls saved - I think she would think job well done,"
her mother Beth Nimmo told One News Now.
Nimmo
believes her daughter's story is relevant to the spiritual battles in today's
classrooms.
"Schools
are a campus for the enemy," Nimmo stated. "It's an open playground for him, because so much of
the Christian voice has been stifled there, and now only a student can have
that voice. It's been stripped from any authority as far as teachers and
administration go."
Rachel's
story will debut in theatres in October.
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