Atlanta evangelist offers free camp for Texas bus crash victims

DALLAS - Members of a suburban church whose trip to church youth camp was interrupted by a fatal charter bus crash in northeast Texas will get a trip to Georgia, organized by an evangelist in that state. <br> <br> A group from Metro Church in Garland was scheduled to leave Sunday for the Georgia Baptist Conference Center. The Rev. Scott Camp, Metro pastor, had been invited to attend the free week of church camp by Atlanta evangelist Rick Gage. <br> <br> ``The youth camp and church family of Metro Church have suffered much,&#39;&#39; Gage said in a prepared statement. ``They need a touch from God and love from fellow Christians.&#39;&#39; <br> <br> Four students from Metro Church died in the June 24 crash that occurred en route to a church camp at Louisiana Tech University. The charter bus veered off Interstate 20 and hit an overpass near Terrell in Kaufman County. Three dozen more children were injured. <br> <br> Investigators said the bus driver, Ernest Carter Jr., who also died in the crash, had small amounts of Valium and cocaine in his system. <br> <br> Carter was a contract employee of Wisconsin-based Discovery Tours who had retained his commercial driver&#39;s license despite a record of traffic violations dating back nearly 17 years.