I live here in Burnet and am the Safety (In Texas we are Safety Teams and not Security Teams, State Regulations) Director at another local Church. I was a member of this church for many years (and no we did not have a safety team when i attended) and know both Jacob and the Pastor Kyle. We were made aware of this almost immediately throu…
I live here in Burnet and am the Safety (In Texas we are Safety Teams and not Security Teams, State Regulations) Director at another local Church. I was a member of this church for many years (and no we did not have a safety team when i attended) and know both Jacob and the Pastor Kyle. We were made aware of this almost immediately through our local church safety teams communications. we put our church in lock down until service was over. neither our Pastor or congregation knew of anything until after the service was over. My issues here is why you proceeded with pushing out unvetted information. The local community was suspicious of this as soon as it happened as the stories coming out did not add up. Once Sheriff Boyd (who by the way is one of the best in the business) finished his investigation and announced the out come of what a lot of folks in the community already knew.
You spent several paragraphs on vetting in your update but shouldn't you have vetted the story a little bit before pushing out an alert nationwide? I know as a content creator it is import to be the person "breaking the news". Helps with the "likes".
I believe you to be a great christian man and you do a great job of keeping us informed of what is going on nationally but in the future please pump the breaks a bit.
In fairness, based on the outflow of the information from the sheriff's media team, there is no way of foreseeing that the story would be corrected by arrest a day later.
Even though this was apparently a false alarm sent out by the church or police there, we know the threat is real and danger level is high because of the thousands of terrorists in our country. Graves is doing the best that he can with the information that is given to him by trusted sources, and he is one of God’s heroes. I am very thankful for his ministry.
Let us all be at peace together:
“…the fruit of the spirit is love , patience, and kindness...”~ ICorinthians 13
“Do everything without arguing or complaining.”~NT
I live here in Burnet and am the Safety (In Texas we are Safety Teams and not Security Teams, State Regulations) Director at another local Church. I was a member of this church for many years (and no we did not have a safety team when i attended) and know both Jacob and the Pastor Kyle. We were made aware of this almost immediately through our local church safety teams communications. we put our church in lock down until service was over. neither our Pastor or congregation knew of anything until after the service was over. My issues here is why you proceeded with pushing out unvetted information. The local community was suspicious of this as soon as it happened as the stories coming out did not add up. Once Sheriff Boyd (who by the way is one of the best in the business) finished his investigation and announced the out come of what a lot of folks in the community already knew.
You spent several paragraphs on vetting in your update but shouldn't you have vetted the story a little bit before pushing out an alert nationwide? I know as a content creator it is import to be the person "breaking the news". Helps with the "likes".
I believe you to be a great christian man and you do a great job of keeping us informed of what is going on nationally but in the future please pump the breaks a bit.
24 hours made a big difference on this one.
I was literally quoting a statement from the Sheriff's Department.... Should I not trust them?
Yes! You did what was good and right! Thank you very much for your service to us all!
In fairness, based on the outflow of the information from the sheriff's media team, there is no way of foreseeing that the story would be corrected by arrest a day later.
Even though this was apparently a false alarm sent out by the church or police there, we know the threat is real and danger level is high because of the thousands of terrorists in our country. Graves is doing the best that he can with the information that is given to him by trusted sources, and he is one of God’s heroes. I am very thankful for his ministry.
Let us all be at peace together:
“…the fruit of the spirit is love , patience, and kindness...”~ ICorinthians 13
“Do everything without arguing or complaining.”~NT
Thank you!
Cool your jets there, Turbo. Your statement on the matter reeks of small town mentality.