Tragedy in our Field

We received a text message during the night that the 8-year old daughter of one of our Christian School Teachers had died last night (actually her 8th birthday is today). Our colleague, Larry, was summoned to the hospital where this dear child had been taken. This is a deep tragedy for our team and for this dear single mom who was from another country herself, bravely serving as a missionary teacher. They were a part of our team and she and her daughter attended conferences, meetings and were a daily part of our colleague’s lives through the Christian School. This dear child was sweet and extremely smart – brilliant actually, with incredible potential. She was sick last week but actually feeling better and was in school early this week.

The information is slowly coming in and the doctors are narrowing the cause down to some tragic and aggressive disease. We won’t know cause for a couple of weeks, and it seems that as humans, we want to understand cause as we reach inwardly and heavenly to try and understand; we trust You and Your mercy, but these things are so difficult Lord.

The normal and daily pressure on our colleagues is already monumental; Father in Heaven, strengthen our dear team, draw them together in this horrific time as they sort out all many things that must be done in this situation. Bring the right people to the side of all our colleagues, comfort those who grieve, strength those working in the background, and shower your mercy and grace upon all of them. There really are no words; there is only Your presence.

The funeral will be at our seminary on Saturday.

All of our days are truly numbered. Our hope is in You dear Lord. Amen.

Dave & Ann

“In Christ alone, my hope is found” from the song by Keith Getty and Stuart Townsend