Source: Evangelical Focus, February 27, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A Christian ministry lost 11 of its members in a traffic accident in Tanzania (Africa) on Saturday, November 24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLeaders and students\u201d taking part of a masters program of YWAM were \u201con a field trip with other local YWAMers\u201d near the city of Arusha. \u201cOne mini-bus was struck and overrun by a large truck with failing brakes,\u201d YWAM Ships Kona said<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cFive injured individuals are still hospitalized and two more people in critical condition to be rallied around in prayer,\u201d an update the day after the incident said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Other media, citing official sources in the country, confirm that a total of 25 people died: one girl, 10 women, and 14 men. Among the dead were an American, a South African, and a Kenyan. The injured included people from Nigeria, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, Cameroon, Switzerland, the U.K., and Mali.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Local and international leaders of YWAM were trying to respond to the tragedy on the ground with details of repatriation, medical evacuation, family support, and funeral arrangements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n YWAM has opened a link for donations<\/a> to help pay for expenses that are expected to rise to US$350,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read the full story with prayer points<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a February 26 letter<\/a>, YWAM Cofounder Darlene Cunningham said, \u201cWe have not seen a tragedy of this magnitude in all of YWAM\u2019s history and we are all devastated.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Evangelical Focus, February 27, 2024 A Christian ministry lost 11 of its members in a traffic accident in Tanzania (Africa) on Saturday, November 24. \u201cLeaders and students\u201d taking part of a masters program of YWAM were \u201con a field trip with other local YWAMers\u201d near the city of Arusha. \u201cOne mini-bus was struck and … Continue reading Tanzania: 11 YWAM Missionaries Killed in a Road Accident<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12768"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12840,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12768\/revisions\/12840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}