[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6673]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                MOURNING THE LOSS OF PASTOR FRED WINTERS

  (Mr. SHIMKUS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SHIMKUS. Madam Speaker, yesterday, in my district, and close to 
my hometown in Maryville, Illinois, Pastor Fred Winters lost his life 
to an assailant who came into the church during the first service.
  Pastor Winters was a friend, and had done a tremendous job in growing 
First Baptist Church in Maryville to a church of great size and a great 
ministry in the area.
  My thoughts and prayers go out to the community of Maryville, 
Illinois. My thoughts and prayers go out to the church and congregants 
of First Baptist Church in Maryville.
  We live in an age of sinful human beings. Sometimes we don't 
understand God's will, but the people at First Baptist Church in 
Maryville are trying to make sense of an issue that doesn't make sense. 
All they do know is that God is in control, and that Pastor Winters is 
joined in heaven with Christ, his Lord.

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