LCC K-9s Comfort Highlands Ranch, Colorado, Following Shooting Tragedy

After a deadly school shooting on Tuesday, May 7, 2019 took the life of one student and injured more, the LCC K-9 Comfort Dogs were invited by Our Savior Lutheran Church in Centennial, Colorado, to be with students, first responders and the community.
 
LCC K-9 Comfort Dog Cubby Comfort Dog, based at Redeemer Lutheran Church in Fort Collins, was first to arrive on Tuesday and quickly connected with students at several vigils. Three other K-9 teams from Nebraska joined Team Cubby later that evening: Katie Comfort Dog (Trinity – Fremont, Nebraska), Joanna Comfort Dog (Christ Lincoln – Lincoln, Nebraska) and Moses Comfort Dog (Christ Lutheran – Cairo, Nebraska).

The teams spent the following days at Recreation Center at Northridge, Highlands Ranch, Colorado, where students were transported  after the shooting, meeting with students individually and their parents, multiple vigils throughout the area, businesses where students had fled to after the shooting, meeting with youth groups and others impacted by this tragedy.

Deb Heuer, handler for Katie Comfort Dog (Trinity-Fremont, Nebraska) shared a text that she received from a mother after her daughter and son spent over an hour with the dogs at the Recreation Center:

Thank you again for being there today. When my oldest son asked me tonight why God would let that happen, I told him that wasn’t what God wanted. I explained that God could be found in the students who were brave, and the first responders, and the caring team of handlers (like yourself) that brought those sweet dogs to us. That’s where we find God and his love.”    

 LCC is grateful for the invitation by Our Father Lutheran Church in Centennial, Colorado, and we ask that you would continue to hold the students, families and communities up in prayer.

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