Columbine survivor says mission trip to Africa helped him let go of his anger

April 22, 2024

A survivor of the 1999 Columbine High School massacre who lost a sister in the mass shooting is speaking out on how a mission trip to Africa has helped him to let go of his anger.

According to The Christian Post, 41 year old Craig Scott shared how his experience 25 years ago has equipped him to better understand the deepest pains faced by young people today. Scott was studying in the school library that day when the two students who carried out the massacre began shooting.

Most of the shooters’ victims were killed in the library and Scott recounted how he saw two of his friends murdered by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. Scott said he prayed for God to remove his fear as he hid beneath a table, covered in blood.

For 25 years, Scott has maintained that he heard a voice in his mind instructing him to escape the library. Scott stated, “I just ended up laying on the floor. I was praying to God to give me courage and to keep protection over us. He told me to get out of there. God told me to get out of there.”

In an interview with CNN in 2012, Scott spoke of how the anger he felt toward his sister’s killers was threatening to drag him into the same kind of spiritual darkness that had motivated them.

In his remarks to The Christian Post, Scott said he began to let go of his anger after ministering to people in refugee camps in Africa who taught him the healing power of forgiveness. Scott said, “I met a person who had lost 17 members of their family due to their whole tribe being killed but still lived a life of forgiveness.”

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