It was during my last year of college when Ashley Scanlon-Smith passed away. Ashley was one of our amazing and highly involved teens at youth group. It was November 14, 2008. I was studying for one of my classes at the student lounge when I got the call from the Youth Minister saying, “Ashley passed away this morning, and we are having a prayer service for her tonight. Will you be able to make it?” I was in complete and utter shock. “But she was only 17?!” I thought to myse