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Church groups try to learn from tragedies.(The Dallas Morning News)
Byline: Jeffrey Weiss
DALLAS _ The Rev. Richard "Whitey" Koons felt a small, special pang of empathy when he heard about last week's deaths at the Fort Worth Water Gardens.
The tragedy was painfully familiar to him: children drowning during a church-related event.
Last week, the victims were four members of an Illinois church, in Fort Worth for a Baptist Sunday school convention.
In 1987, Koons was a youth minister at a Balch Springs church _ and the driver of a bus carrying 43 young campers who were swept away in a flash flood on the Guadalupe River. Ten teens died.
"Those kinds of things make you or break you," he said this week. "Regardless of whether you're a minister or a lay person, you have to check out whether you can practice what you preach."
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Source: HighBeam Research, Church groups try to learn from tragedies.(The Dallas Morning News)