Her goal in life was making sure everyone was well taken care of.

Now, her life has been taken from the many she's touched.

Forty-year-old Genai Coleman, originally from Elkhart, was killed outside Atlanta, Georgia last Friday.

Police tell her family that she was waiting to pick up her daughter from work when she was shot to death.

Juggling teaching, raising three adoptive daughters, being in the Naval Reserve, and involved in church, is a preview of how Coleman lived her life.

Her mother says she even wrote a poem talking about how it's not the number of years of life you live, but rather the quality of those years.

It is in her smile and in the meaning of her name -- "Genai" means "one who loves people."

Her mother, Geraldine Brown, remembers Genai as "Giving of herself, giving of her time, giving of her talents – and that was evident in her ministry, as well as in her everyday life."

It was a life of just 40 years that her parents, Geraldine and Reverend Coy Brown, never expected to be taken in an instant by a gunman.

Geraldine says, "You don't know what you did. You don't know the life that you've snuffed out. You don't know the value of that life."

Genai lived her life making a difference in young lives. She was the proud adoptive mother of a 19, 21, and 23-year-old, as well as a teacher who touched lives in Indiana and Georgia.

Geraldine says, "There are other children that she would meet in the neighborhood or at church or kids from her classroom that were in difficulty, and the parents did not mind her working with them. They just clung to her."

So did Genai's younger brother, Reverend Edwin Newsome, the youngest of five. Genai was the middle child.

Her last phone call was to him. He believes it was her cry for help, but he missed it.

Reverend Newsome says, "It brings you to a place where you're almost feeling helpless."

Planning a funeral for their daughter's homecoming is the Brown's worst nightmare. In just weeks, Genai was expected to return home from Georgia to Indiana to open up a preschool academy in Elkhart.

Reverend Newsome says, "Her words exactly were, 'I don't really care about the money. I just want to establish businesses to help other people."

Now, because of their strong faith in God, Genai's family believes God will help them.

"We still trust in God. We don't take vengeance, because it's not ours," says her father.

Police are still looking for the gunman. He took off with Genai's car, which they did find on Monday.

Her visitation and services will be Monday at Canaan Baptist Church in Elkhart at 10:00 a.m.

Her family is in the process of setting up a memorial fund for the girls.