i sat down with her to find out how she got through the darkest moment of her life. what did that church mean to your mother? that church meant everything to her. my mom joined that church in 1974 when i was a sophomore in high school. we call it mama got jesus. after mama got jesus, we all started to attend emmanuel. reverend sharon was a trauma chaplain working in hospitals in dallas. her mother, ethyl lance was the sexton at emmanuel a.m.e. church in charleston. she was the one that opened the church in the morning and kept that church lean. she would be the one that locked up at night. that was her pride and joy. she was part of the fabric of that church? she was i do believe. yeah. breaking overnight, church massacre. then my niece called and she said, sharon, the chaplain wants