In “The Devil in Pew Number Seven,” Rebecca Nichols Alonzo tells a deeply personal story of God, faith, murder and forgiveness.
The story centers on her parents, a Holiness church pastor and his wife, who left Satsuma, Ala., in the 1970s to shepherd a flock in the struggling Free Welcome Holiness Church in Sellerstown, N.C.
“They felt that God had called them,” Alonzo, now 40, says of her parents.
Alonzo was a little girl at the time, five years older than her brother, Daniel.
She was almost eight on the evening of March 23, 1978, when Harris Williams walked into their house at supper and pulled out a .38-caliber pistol.
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