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Columbine Remembered in New Movie on Faith, Hope, Forgiveness

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Nearly two decades after her death at Columbine, Rachel Scott's faith is touching hearts and lives in a new movie about hope and forgiveness. 

Rachel Scott was just like any other 17-year-old. She worried about school, work, and graduating from high school. The life she knew came to a sudden halt in 1999 when Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold murdered her in the notorious Columbine shooting. 

Scott was the first of 11 other students who were killed by their fellow classmates. Before she was fatally shot, one of the gunmen asked her if she believed in God. She answered 'yes' knowing she would pay for that answer with her life. 

Scott often wrote about her relationship with Jesus and desire for compassion in her journal. Years later, that journal is now the basis of a new film title I'm Not Ashamed. 

Although Scott is not alive today, her passion for those who do not know Christ is seen loud and clear in this movie.

"For the potential of this to reach the unreached, which was what her desire was – to see souls saved - I think she would think job well done," her mother Beth Nimmo told One News Now.

Nimmo believes her daughter's story is relevant to the spiritual battles in today's  classrooms. 

"Schools are a campus for the enemy," Nimmo stated. "It's an open playground for him, because so much of the Christian voice has been stifled there, and now only a student can have that voice. It's been stripped from any authority as far as teachers and administration go."

Rachel's story will debut in theatres in October.
 

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