Mission Network News

Headlining today's news, the evangelical mission community has been touched by the Kenya Airways crash. The plane went down in the ocean Monday after taking off from the Ivory Coast. Summer Institute of Linguistics' Stuart Shepherd says two of their workers, Bob and Ruth Chapman from Canada, were on the plane. "They have not found them among the survivors, but of course, we're guessing that the search is going on. So, it doesn't look very hopeful, but we can not categorically say either way what has happened to them." Shepherd says the Champman's are leaders in the organization. "Bob and Ruth were within a few months ago, were recently appointed to this work, to head up the work of Bible translation and linguistic analysis in the continent of Africa. So, this is a blow." Shepherd is asking people to pray for fellow staff members and the Chapman family as they deal with this tragic situation.