Please Pray

Hi All,

Kelly and I received an email today from a woman that we were at Missionary Training with in Colorado prior to coming here. She has a friend who is at the exact same training right now that sent out an urgent prayer request that we are hoping you will also pray for. The email follows below:

I'm writing this email to ask for an urgent prayer request. Today, six of us who are attending MTI were on the way to a church where Philip Yancey was speaking and got in a fatal car accident. Two died on the scene and the other four are in very critical condition. Two who died are single women (Karin and Jessica) and the four are a couple with a 18 month old boy (Scott and Andrea and baby Isaac) and a single young woman (Emily). They all went through extensive surgeries and still remaining in critical condition and the baby has no brain activity at the moment but kept on the life support.

Unfortunately the news didn't get better and below follows the update email that we received:

Thank you for all your prayers. It's been hard all through last night and all day today. We prayed throughout the night, but we heard this morning that the 18 month old baby, Isaac, passed away early this morning.

Scott, Isaac's father has severe contusion in his lungs and while he is stable, the lungs are being filled with fluid and blood. The major concern for him is blood clots. Please pray that there won't be any blood clots leading to pulmonary embolism which can be fatal.

Andrea, Scott's wife, has many internal wounds including broken back (C7 vertebrae). Pray for her injuries to heal without complications. She is heavily sedated to keep her stable while the doctors do more testing and scanning and she does not know Isaac passed away.

Emily also has broken back (C2 & C3 vertebrae). Thankfully, the surgery went well last night and she was able to breathe on her own for 10 minutes today, but the major arteries around the broken vertebrae are damaged although not completely torn. Please pray that the arteries would heal on it own without clotting and other complications.

Please continue to pray for the family of those who are hurt and who had died due to the acciden and us traninee and MTI faculty and staff who are mourning our loss. Thank you so much for your prayers.

Please pray for the victims, families and for the other missionaries still training in Colorado. While we were at training, our group grew quite close to each other and I imagine that the relationships are similar with this group. I can only guess that compounding the grief felt by the trainees is the question of how could this happen to people who are simply trying to do God's will and answer his call. While that is obviously a dangerous and difficult questions, I'm sure it's being asked. Please pray for peace and healing.

In Solidarity,
M&K