Day Two of VT Tragedy

Blacksburg, VIRGINIA - After a day of horror and sickening shock, hundreds of Virginia Tech Christians gathered at a campus ministry center to cry.to pray.to worship.to try to find the God of light at such a dark, dark time.

Sophomore Andrew Dunlap is director of Campus Crusade there.

"Guys, we need to be just an extremely bold light right now," said Dunlap.

He then asked, "How can we reach out? How can we tell people about the saving grace of Christ through all this? How can we just love people the way that Christ would have if He were here during this time?"

The students prayed for peace, for understanding.they even prayed for the shooter.

He was apparently a six-foot Asian young man, firing away with a nine-millimeter and a 22-caliber pistol, wearing a vest where he could carry plenty of extra ammo clips.

Identifying him has been tough because he shot himself in the face as police closed in.

As word of the killer's bloodshed spread around campus, folks like Jeff Highfield, Campus Crusade minister, had to deal with a barrage of emotions. We were devastated, obviously sad, angry.you name it, we felt that way," said Highfield.

Another Campus Crusade leader - junior Sara Klingensmith - has to help work out how Virginia Tech's older Christians minister to those whose faith might be shaken by the evil deeds done here.

"I just have to tell them that God is sovereign and that even though we don't understand why and even though we don't know why all of this is happening, we just have to trust that He's in control and that He's going to be the God of comfort and that we just have to let Him be our rock and just fall back on Him," she said.

But meanwhile, these campus Christians have to deal with the images of horror they or their friends experienced, including a friend of Dunlap's who was one of the few to survive one of the shooter's bloodiest scenes.

"The shooter came straight into the room," Dunlap recounted. "He began shooting at random students and the teacher. And from what he said, the shooter left the room."

He continued, "Everyone was on the ground. He was trying to say, 'Guys, be quiet. Pretend like you're dead.' He pretended he was just dead on the ground. Then the shooter came back into the room, began firing again at students who were still living."

Dozens of people died or were wounded on this campus Monday, but all 25,000 students - and many more thousands around them - will be reeling for many days to come.