CASSIE BERNALL

"I think that the way of advancing the Kingdom is just being a loyal friend and a good example to nonbelievers, as well as Christians. Just trying not to contradict myself and get rid of all hypocrisy, and just to live for Christ."

"Don't seek human love for comfort, seek God's unfailing love instead."

"I will die for my faith. I will die for my God. It's the least I can do for Christ dying for me."

"A True Christian Martyr and Woman of God"

On April 20th, 1999, Cassie Bernall was sitting in the library of Columbine High School, in Littleton, Colorado, when two white racists neo-nazis, who were also followers of the demented so-called rock star Marilyn Manson, burst in, and began shooting everyone in sight. Cassie stood up and began to pray. One of the killers pointed a shotgun in Cassie's face and asked her, "Do you believe in God?" Cassie stood face to face with her killers and she said "Yes". One of the killers then said to her," Why?" and then immediately shot her in the face, without giving her a chance to answer.

Cassie died a true Christian Martyr for her faith. She could have begged for her life, in hopes that her killers would take pity on her and might spare her life. She refused to do that. Cassie did not give those low-life pieces of trash that killed her the satisfaction of seeing her beg and plead for her life. Cassie knew where she would be going. She kept her faith in Jesus. Cassie proved that she loved Jesus so much, that she was willing to die for her faith in Him. Today, many say they love Jesus, but if asked to prove their faith like Cassie did, many would back down, and cry like little babies and beg for their lives.

At a time in the world where people need a hero, as a role model, Cassie Rene` Bernall serves as a true hero. I am proud of Cassie. She was what a true Christian is all about. So many of these wimps that we see on "Christian TV" that tell us about faith and living for Christ, are not even fit to walk on the same ground that Cassie walked on. They would cave-in and act like pansies if they were faced with the same situation Cassie found herself in. If only most Christians truly believed like Cassie, imagine all the people who be serving Jesus right now! As I travel around the world, I have personally shared Cassie's amazing story with the congregations of churches I have spoken at. As a result, thousands have answered my alter calls, and have given their lives to Christ, and have rededicated their lives to Him. They have made commitments to take up Cassie's mantel. On April 20th, 1999, Cassie laid down her mantle. Do you have enough faith, courage, and love for Jesus to pick up Cassie's mantel?

Even as Cassie lives in Heaven, she still preaches God's Word today, through this ministry, Michael W. Smith's music ministry, and her mother's book," She Said Yes.", by Misty Bernall.

This ministry is now dedicated to the memory of Cassie Bernall, MY HERO!.......Pastor Johnny Lee Clary

Denver Rocky Mountain News

by Carla Crowder

A Columbine killer pointed his gun at Cassie Bernall and asked her the life-or-death question: "Do you believe in God?" She paused. The gun was still there. "Yes, I believe in God," she said. (Alan Keyes in the - WorldnetDaily said, "Several of the students at Columbine High have told of being with a girl when a gunman demanded of the group whether any of them believed in Jesus Christ. The girl hesitated a minute, and then said "yes." The gunman said "for what?" --and killed her") That was the last thing this 17-year-old Christian would ever say. The gunman asked her "Why?" She had no time to answer before she was shot to death.
Cassie entered the Columbine High School library to study during lunch. She left a martyr.

Though lots of fellow Columbine students already were strong, vocal Christians, Bernall's confession in the face of death has inspired them to keep the faith no matter how bad it gets. She did something that one of the thieves did when Jesus was on the cross. She admitted she believed in Jesus Christ before she died," said Joshua Lapp, a 16-year-old Columbine sophomore and member of St. Philip Lutheran Church. Crouched in the library, hiding from the gunmen, he listened as Bernall was shot to death after her confession. How would he have reacted? "I would've done the same thing she did," Lapp said. He only knew Bernall from passing in crowded school hallways. But his voice was still halting as he spoke of her. It was just ... she's ... after she said that, you know she's now in a better place," Lapp said. "She died for her faith. That's why she died and that's how she lived her whole life.

She was a martyr for Jesus," said Crystal Woodman, a Columbine junior and member of Bernall's youth group at West Bowles Community Church. The girls used to volunteer together, reaching out to homeless people downtown. Woodman, too, barely escaped from the library, and only after asking God to "send your angels down." Teens like Lapp and Woodman aren't blaming God for Tuesday's violence. They're thanking him they're alive. "Everybody that made it out, they know they made it out for a reason, or somebody was watching out for them," Lapp said. Churches where these students worship have had countless vigils, memorials and counseling sessions this week. On Thursday, another prayer session sprung out of the mud and muck at the park across from Columbine. At first it was just a small circle.

The Faith Christian School girls soccer team from Arvada had come over in their maroon sweats to pray at the site. Hundreds of people buzzed around them: friends, students and strangers hauling posters, flowers and letters to the giant memorials growing in the park. The girls prayed and the circle grew. Twenty kids, then 50. Holding hands, singing hymns. Young voices praying aloud under a cold, slate gray sky. Matt Baker, a tough-looking kid wearing baggy jeans, a Tommy Hilfiger sweatshirt and a yellow baseball cap turned backward, prayed: "If we lean toward you God, we know you're going to lean right back." The circle kept getting bigger, crowding out the television crews scrambling to go live.

A hundred kids. Maybe 120. Finally everyone grew quiet, captured by a sweet, high-pitched voice. "The only way you'll get through this is through Jesus. If you don't have Jesus, get Jesus," she said. "You don't know if you have tomorrow." It was the voice of Sam Matherne, a student at Cherry Creek High School and a member of the Orchard Road Christian Center. She, too, was a friend of Rachel Scott. "My best friend died in there, don't let it be in vain," Matherne said. Nearby, raindrops pattered on the memorials, smearing posters and letters. A letter to Bernall and to God, written on white notebook paper, stayed dry under a tent. "This sweet, innocent beautiful girl (is) one of your most precious creatures and the world has suffered a great loss." But, as these teens see it, according to Bernall's friend Woodman: "Now she's in heaven. She's so much better off than any of us."

Two days before her she was murdered , Cassie wrote this:

"Now I have given up on everything else I have found it to be the only way To really know Christ and to experience The mighty power that brought Him back to life again, and to find Out what it means to suffer and to Die with him. So, whatever it takes I will be one who lives in the fresh Newness of life of those who are Alive from the dead."

The morning Cassie was killed, she handed this note to a friend:

"Honestly, I want to live completely for God, it's hard and scary but totally worth it."

MARK 8:35

"Whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it."

LUKE 23: 43

"I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in Paradise"

REVELATION 21: 4

"He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying, or pain."

On the news you came, no faces, no names Just two young lives of many snuffed out by sad, hurting boy's with guns.

To our homes you came, two faces, two names, still no-one special just two that were slain.

In my heart you flooded, two special girls, one God, we shared the faith but you seemed to have something more.

The ability to say "yes" down the barrel of a gun, the ability to say "no more" when suddenly it wasn't fun.

Two shining stars you seem to be, not saints but people just like me.

Your courage gave God the tools he needs to turn grieving hearts to glad, cause at his hand you sit and through your lives I too can make a stand, and to my God and all the others I have the courage to now say "YES"

In tribute to Cassie and Rachael who were slain during the Columbine Massacre, who's never ending faith and God loving courage is an example to us all.

Mal, Gisborne, New Zealand

Click Here to read "Where was God on April 20th,1999

Click Here to read "Letter From God To Littleton, Colorado"

Click Here to order the book "SHE SAID YES" by Misty Bernall

Click Here for video "Now Is The Time" by Michael W. Smith about Cassie

Click Here for Rachel Scott 's Official Memorial Web Site