UPDATED: Attack by robbers leaves pastor badly injured
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As Warman lay defenseless on the ground, bleeding profusely, his wife ran at the attackers with a bass guitar she had found by the back door. Finally they ran off, taking the victim’s wallet. –
The Press-Enterprise [CA, USA] reports He suffered
skull fractures and may have brain damage, Mendy Warman said, but he is
expected to survive. The victim’s wife of 25 years spoke outside the
hospital, surrounded by friends and family who have flown in from all
across the country to offer support.
By Mendy Warman’s
side was the couple’s 17-year-old daughter, Megan, who had wrapped a
shirt around her father’s head after the attack to stop the bleeding.
As Church of the Valley’s youth pastor for the past six years — and a
second-grade teacher on San Bernardino’s Westside for the past 18 years
– the man known as Dennis often worked with at-risk, low-income
children. He has led afterschool programs and organized food banks for
the needy.
The Redlands Daily Facts reports A Highland church pastor
who was viciously attacked while decorating his church for Christmas
has emerged from a coma and is breathing on his own.
“I am more fired up than
ever before,” Mendy Warman said of her recent experiences praying and
singing praise songs with her husband at the hospital. The couple is
more resolved than ever to continue bringing God’s word to the small
yet growing church.