April 20, 1999 changed the face of youth culture as we know it.  Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado became the focal point of the worst school shooting massacre in history.  When all was said and done the killers’ own suicides, 12 students and a teacher were dead, and 23 students were wounded, several of them critically.  It took days for the police to find and defuse all of the 30 propane  and pipe bombs that had been planted.  Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold casually walked around deciding which of their classmates would live and which would die.  Two female students were asked if they believed in God and when they answered “yes” they were shot at point blank range.I remember I was sitting in my campus ministry youth class when I heard the news and I remember thinking, “How would I handle this, If I was a youth pastor there” and I had no answer.  Nobody knew what to say or what to do because nothing like this had happened before on this magnitude.  I remember spending hours watching the news trying to find out why these two guys would do this and take so many innocent lives. Later in the year some survivors came to speak to our class about the tragedy.  Songs were written to remember Cassie Bernall.April 20, 1999 was a wake up call to administrators, parents, students and the local church that nobody is exempt.  It was a wake up call that there are hurting students and there are warning signs and it is so important for us in “charge” to be on the lookout for the hurting and broken.“First, there’s more brokenness and suffering. Kids are hurting. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold didn’t just simultaneously snap one April morning. Their hurt and pain had simmered and grown over the course of a long, long time. Then, the only way out they could find was the way they chose.Second, the stuff that kids should never have to deal with is having to be dealt with by kids at younger and younger ages. It’s called age compression. What the Columbine student body witnessed was horri