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Death Overtakes Pastor’s Wife Shot During Home Invasion

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Topic: Death Overtakes Pastor’s Wife Shot During Home Invasion

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Subject: Death Overtakes Pastor’s Wife Shot During Home Invasion
Date Posted: 11/23/2015 at 1:00pm

Davey, Amanda and Weston Blackburnanda was shot and killed after a home invasion.

A pastor's wife has died after robbers shot her during a home invasion earlier this week, according to http://fox59.com/2015/11/12/pastors-wife-dies-after-being-sh ot-during-robbery/ - reports.

Amanda Blackburn, wife of Resonate Church Indianapolis' Davey Blackburn, was attacked in her home on Tuesday, Indianapolis Star reports. She was not killed immediately, hovering near death for two days while her church family began the mourning process.

"It's impossible to communicate all the emotions my heart has been forced to process," Davey Blackburn http://resonateindianapolis.com/2015/11/statement-from- davey-blackburn/ - writes in a statement. "My wife was such a beautiful, gracious, loving woman of God. I have not only lost my ministry partner and support but also my very best friend. There is no way to prepare yourself for circumstances like these. As deeply as I am hurting, I am hopeful and confident that good things will come of this. I rest in the truth of Romans 8:28 that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him and who are called according to His purpose."

The couple had one child already, and Amanda was reportedly pregnant with another.

"Amanda made it her life's calling to love and serve everyone she knew," Blackburn writes. "Even more, she has made it her life's mission to see as many people as possible come to know Jesus as their personal Savior. I know that in her death and legacy, even more people will come to a saving faith in Christ. I know beyond a shadow of a doubt her desire for me would be to continue what we've started here in Indy. I hold firm to the belief that God is still good, that He takes our tragedy and turns it into triumph, and that the best truly is yet to come."

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Date Posted: 11/23/2015 at 1:03pm

Slain Pastor's Wife Amanda Blackburn's Sister Says She Talked to Her in Heaven

4:00PM EST 11/20/2015 http://www.charismanews.com/component/search/?searchwor d=Jessilyn%20Justice&ordering=newest&searchphrase=ex act&areas0=authors - Jessilyn Justice

Pastor's wife http://www.charismanews.com/us/53176-death-overtakes-pastor- s-wife-shot-during-home-invasion - Amanda Blackburn was found shot after a break-in and died a few days later.

Her memorial service attracted http://www.indystar.com/story/news/2015/11/15/amanda-blackbu rns-memorial-draws-over-2000-people/75710740/ - thousands of mourners . But one person who was rejoicing in the midst of her mourning? Amanda's sister, Amber Byars Wilkerson, who had a vision of her baby sister reaching the arms of Jesus.

In a https://www.facebook.com/amber.b.wilkinson/posts/102076 93899607269?fref=nf&pnref=story - Facebook post , Wilkerson poured out her heart and described how she believes Blackburn spoke to her, even after death.

"I have always looked up to my baby sister," Wilkerson writes. "I always thought it was ironic that my younger sister would be the person I respected most. I loved her more than she would ever be able to understand. She helped me through this life in every way. She encouraged me, challenged me, held me in my most difficult times, prayed for me, laughed with me, endured every phase of life with me. She never stopped loving me. Her life meant more to me than words will ever be able to express."

As for her vision, Wilkerson writes: "I talked to her yesterday in heaven. Through the tears and sobs, I could hear her sweet voice saying 'Aaaaaaamber! My sister! Please don't cry. It's going to be OK. I know you're sad, but I'm in the presence of my Savior. The one place in this entire world I feel most safe. Most loved. Most fulfilled. Most perfected. My Jesus is here with me and Evie. He's squeezing our hands. He loves me, Amber, more than anyone else on the earth combined. I know it's hard, but I'm in the very place I've always desired to be. I'm home. My true home.'"

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Date Posted: 11/23/2015 at 5:25pm

Suspect Arrested in Murder of Pastor's Wife

http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2015/November/Suspect-Arrested -in-Murder-of-Pastors-Wife/ - Video>

Source: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&a mp;frm=1&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCwQFjAA&url=h ttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbn.com%2Fcbnnews%2F&ei=ba69UvTZHqmysASZ 7IDoDA&usg=AFQjCNEfex-5kYBXVFRrEHHf9eazHD2bpA&bvm=bv .58187178,d.cWc - A suspect has been arrested in connection with the murder of Amanda Blackburn, the Indianapolis pastor's wife killed at her home earlier this month.

Last week, Indianapolis http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2015/November/Handgun-Found-Ne ar-Home-of-Slain-Pastors-Wife-/ - police recovered a handgun found near the Blackburns' home. It was submitted for testing at a crime lab to determine whether it was connected with Amanda's murder.

On Nov. 10, Pastor Davey Blackburn found his pregnant wife shot in the head when he returned home from the gym.

Amanda died two days later at the hospital. She had been 13 weeks pregnant with a baby girl who did not survive.

Now the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department says they have arrested an 18-year-old named Larry Taylor on a preliminary murder charge.

Pastor Blackburn says he's "extremely relieved" by the arrest of a suspect, but that it doesn't "undo the pain we are feeling."

He says investigators have told him they have a "solidly-built case."

IMPD Chief Rick Hite thanked "federal, state and local partnerships" for aiding in the arrest.

"All victims of criminal homicides deserve closure," Hite said. "Our detectives have worked tirelessly, going days without sleep to solve murders in our city. With the assistance of Assistant U.S. Attorney Josh Minkler and Prosecutor Terry Curry justice will be done."

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http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2015/November/Indiana-Pastors- Wife-Slain-in-Home-Robbery/ - Indiana Pastor's Wife Slain in Home Robbery
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