Two years after his wife Amanda was fatally shot during a home invasion while he worked out at a gym on Nov. 10, 2015, Indiana Pastor Davey Blackburn announced Tuesday that he is engaged to a new woman. He plans on getting married to her next month.
“Yep. It’s true. I’m engaged! I know for MOST of you this comes as a complete surprise so let me back up and tell you how I met this girl and how we got to this point,” gushed Blackburn, who leads Resonate Church in Indianapolis.
In a blog post on his website, he identified his fiancée as Kristi Monroy, a single mom who loves the Lord and comes from a family of missionary workers.
He said he proposed to her with the blessing of Amanda’s parents last Wednesday after a few months of clandestine dating, which included playdates with their children at Chick-fil-A.
“Last September (2016) I watched this gorgeous dark-haired, brown-eyed girl walk through the doors of the Crossfit gym I work out at. She had my attention from the moment I saw her. I thought I was being subtle, but she would tell me later I was being far less discreet than I hoped,” he recalled.
Before making the decision to get engaged or appear in public with Monroy as a couple, Blackburn said he cleared the move with the prosecutor working on the ongoing trial of Amanda’s alleged killers, Larry Jo Taylor Jr., 18, and his accomplice, Jalen Watson, 21.
“When May came around and we realized Amanda’s trial was going to be delayed yet again, I called the…
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