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LAFAYETTE, IN (August 17, 2007) \u2013 While researching a four-part series about the<\/em> death<\/em> of Jeremy Doyle, and how Jeremy\u2019s parents found new life, Covenant news writer Stan Friedman met with other people whose lives were changed by Jeremy. Today, he shares their stories.<\/em>
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From left to right are Mary Dillman, Brian Dillman, Scott Hodson, Richard Doyle, Sandy Doyle.<\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Deputy Scott Hodson was the first law enforcement officer on the scene when Jeremy Doyle died. Mary Dillman did not know Jeremy but answered an altar call at his funeral. Her husband, Brian, later would give his life to Christ as a result. All three have been to Haiti as part of Lafayette Covenant Church\u2019s Haiti Mission project.<\/p>\n

They recently met together (see photo) to recount how their lives intersected and were permanently changed because of the head-on collision that killed the high school senior in December 1998.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wasn\u2019t even supposed to be working that night,\u201d recalls Scott, a member of the Tippecanoe Sheriff\u2019s Department. He was filling in for the shift of a friend who needed the time off.<\/p>\n

Scott has served 22 years with the department, and he has seen a lot of tragedy. They can run together, but Jeremy\u2019s death is one of three he vividly remembers. Jeremy was still in the car, and an EMT was holding the young man\u2019s head while talking to him. (It turned out that the EMT was a volunteer firefighter who had given Jeremy his first job)<\/p>\n

Scott interrupts his story to compose himself as the memories return. He continues and tells of going to the hospital emergency room, where he handed Jeremy\u2019s wallet to the teenager\u2019s father, Richard.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t know that was you,\u201d Richard says, surprised at how details of that evening continue to unfold. \u201cI remember getting it but I didn\u2019t remember it was you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were in such shock,\u201d says Jeremy\u2019s mother, Sandy. She, too, is hearing the story for the first time.<\/p>\n

It would be several years before Scott would meet the family again. \u201cI had accepted Christ, but I didn\u2019t go to church,\u201d he says. \u201cIt just wasn\u2019t me at the time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Years later, when Scott did return, it was to the Covenant Church. He saw Richard in the hallway. \u201cI knew instantly who he was,\u201d Scott says. But the two never spoke about the accident until they traveled together to Haiti last year.<\/p>\n

Scott says the experience in Haiti continues to change him. He fell in love with the people of LaMare. \u201cYou can go to a mall here and hold a door open for somebody, and they growl at you. There, the people are filled with joy. I knew right away that I wanted to go back again.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think about Jeremy all the time,\u201d says Mary Dillman. \u201cI thank God for him and how he lived his life because my whole family is going to heaven because of him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mary never knew the teenager who would have such an impact on her life. She attended Jeremy\u2019s funeral at the request of a friend who needed her presence.<\/p>\n

Mary attended church as a child but that had been years before. Religion was fine, but she didn\u2019t want to be anything like the woman she had met the week before who was talking about her son\u2019s faith during a conversation. \u201cI thought she was a religious fanatic,\u201d she explains, smiling as she thinks about the path her own journey has taken. The woman was Sandy Doyle.<\/p>\n

Mary sat in the sanctuary during the service on that December day, and the stories of Jeremy and his faith commitment prompted a reconsideration of her own life. \u201cI heard the gospel in a way I had never heard it before,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

When then-youth pastor Jon Black gave an altar call as requested by Richard and Sandy, Mary knew she had to answer. \u201cI called Sandy the next week to see if she knew of some good Christian music I could listen to,\u201d Mary says. The two women are now neighbors.<\/p>\n

Mary\u2019s husband, Brian, would attend church with her over the next one and a half years but never made a commitment of faith. That changed while attending a membership class. He serves on the church\u2019s pastoral search committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Four-part series<\/p>\n

“Losing Jeremy\u2018That Was God Preparing Us for the Girls\u2019”<\/p>\n

“Lafayette Church \u2018Adopts\u2019 Village”<\/p>\n

“Lives intersect after tragedy”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Brian, who says he is project-oriented by nature, has traveled to Haiti, where he helped build school desks. His purpose for the trip changed after he arrived, however. \u201cIt was no longer about the project,\u201d he explains. \u201cIt was about being brothers and sisters in Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n

Connections among people continue to be made internationally and locally. \u201cWe still have people come up to us and say they gave their life to the Lord because of Jeremy,\u201d Sandy says.<\/p>\n

Sandy is amazed at her own connection with the Covenant that would one day lead to the changes in so many lives following Jeremy\u2019s death. When she was 12 years old and attending a Baptist congregation, the youth of the church attended a Covenant camp, she says. \u201cI gave my life to Jesus Christ at Covenant Harbor.\u201d<\/p>\n

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