"Daughter Murders Family, Surviving Father Offers Forgiveness and Grace"
Last week at COPE we heard the true, gut wrenching story of a brutally murdered family and the father who exchanged Terror for Grace.
Terry Caffey shared his story last week, to a room of prison ministers and Texas State Chaplains though raw emotion with a delivery only a father could muster.
Terry spoke courageously as he remembered how his entire family was taken from him in an instance. He told of how his own daughter and her boyfriend planned and carried out a vicious plot to enter their house and murder the entire family. All of this came in response to Terry forbidding his daughter to date this boyfriend
Through his very emotional telling of that nights events in march of 2008, he spoke of how his 16 year old daughter's former boyfriend came in the house, shot him, his wife, and their 2 sons. He recalled being left for dead in his own house and dragging himself out of his home before it was burned to the ground. He was shot several times but managed to crawl 400 yards from his death. He asked God to keep him stay alive long enough to find out the identity of the killer. He did stay alive only to find out that his wife and two sons were gone and that his daughter Erin was being charged with 3 counts of capital murder.
It is impossible to understand the emotions and reaction that would have flooded Terry in the moments after finding out the full Terror of that night. He describes wondering why and how God could have taken his family in this way.
Six weeks later he visited what remained of his
house and ultimately his life. He struggled with why God had allowed him to experience this and how he would live again. As he stood in the ashes and rubble that was once his home, his glance came across something that had not been consumed in the fire. There laying in the ashes was a single page from a book his wife had owned, through his tears Terry read :
Terry has told his story many times over the past year and a half and has had many opportunities to live out his belief that "God is Sovereign."
He also was given the opportunity to meet the author of the book from which that life altering page was preserved, James Pence.
Terry continues to visit his daughter who is in prison, and firmly believes she was not the mastermind behind the deaths of her family.
This powerful story of faith and grace is retold in the book, "Terror By Night" written by both Terry Caffey and James Pence.
Booking the Author is available by contacting Carlton Willis Communications, at KWCcomm@rgv.rr.com
Please visit our website www.wviw.com
Terry Caffey shared his story last week, to a room of prison ministers and Texas State Chaplains though raw emotion with a delivery only a father could muster.
Terry spoke courageously as he remembered how his entire family was taken from him in an instance. He told of how his own daughter and her boyfriend planned and carried out a vicious plot to enter their house and murder the entire family. All of this came in response to Terry forbidding his daughter to date this boyfriend
"Typical teenage behavior might have included pouting, a bad attitude or perhaps a yelling match. Never in a million years would Terry Caffey have suspected it would involve murder."
Through his very emotional telling of that nights events in march of 2008, he spoke of how his 16 year old daughter's former boyfriend came in the house, shot him, his wife, and their 2 sons. He recalled being left for dead in his own house and dragging himself out of his home before it was burned to the ground. He was shot several times but managed to crawl 400 yards from his death. He asked God to keep him stay alive long enough to find out the identity of the killer. He did stay alive only to find out that his wife and two sons were gone and that his daughter Erin was being charged with 3 counts of capital murder.It is impossible to understand the emotions and reaction that would have flooded Terry in the moments after finding out the full Terror of that night. He describes wondering why and how God could have taken his family in this way.
Six weeks later he visited what remained of his
house and ultimately his life. He struggled with why God had allowed him to experience this and how he would live again. As he stood in the ashes and rubble that was once his home, his glance came across something that had not been consumed in the fire. There laying in the ashes was a single page from a book his wife had owned, through his tears Terry read : "I couldn't understand why You would take my family and leave me to struggle along without them. And i guess I still don't totally understand that part of it. But I do believe that You're sovereign; You're in control."In that moment Terry felt his joy in Christ return.
Terry has told his story many times over the past year and a half and has had many opportunities to live out his belief that "God is Sovereign."
He also was given the opportunity to meet the author of the book from which that life altering page was preserved, James Pence.
Terry continues to visit his daughter who is in prison, and firmly believes she was not the mastermind behind the deaths of her family.This powerful story of faith and grace is retold in the book, "Terror By Night" written by both Terry Caffey and James Pence.
Booking the Author is available by contacting Carlton Willis Communications, at KWCcomm@rgv.rr.com
Please visit our website www.wviw.com
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