Missionary Martyrs in Iraq

Women mourn fallen martyrs at WMU event

KISSIMMEE (FBC)—A somber and serious mood prevailed as the stark reality of the implicit danger of serving on the world’s mission field was brought home to the annual meeting of the Florida Woman’s Missionary Union.

SWBTS students, faculty mourn one of their own

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)--David McDonnall was a master storyteller who was willing to die so that others could hear the story of Jesus, close friends said in a memorial service at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary March 23.

Slain aid worker sought God’s attention

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (BP)–Yvonne Lawson’s fingertips caressed the crate containing the coffin of her daughter, Karen Watson, oblivious to the crowd collected about her, family and friends who met the plane bearing the body at Kern County’s Meadows Field.

Iraq attack survivor recuperates in Dallas

DALLAS (BP/FBW) — The lone survivor of a March 15 attack on five Southern Baptist humanitarian aid workers in Iraq is back in the United States.

WHY?

RICHMOND, Va. (BP)–Why?

That anguished one-word question is being asked by many people after five Southern Baptist aid workers were shot in Iraq March 15.

Karen Watson: A woman ‘sold out for Jesus’

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (BP)–Karen Watson counted the cost. Then she followed God with her heart and with her head as she entered the war zone of Iraq to share with people there the message that had made her willing to sacrifice everything.

Fellow workers in mid-east honor slain friends

JACKSONVILLE (FBW)-Florida native Brian Barlow, administrator of the Baptist School in Amman, Jordan, is one of several Baptist workers living in the Middle East who personally experienced the dedication of the martyred missionaries. The International Mission Board worker from Pensacola told Florida Baptist Witness in an e-mail the missionaries’ memorial service at the school was emotional, as "many of us knew it could have been us in their place."

Elliots heeded ‘God’s calling’ to Iraq

CARY, N.C. (BP)–The last time Reca Davis saw Larry and Jean Elliott, the couple was in the States, preparing for their service in Iraq.

Four IMB workers killed in Iraq ambush
One other critically wounded in drive-by shooting in northern Iraq city of Mosul

RICHMOND, Va. (BP)--Four Americans researching needs for humanitarian projects in northern Iraq were killed and one was critically wounded in a drive-by shooting March 15 in Mosul. The workers were in the area under the auspices of the Southern Baptist International Mission Board.

Fourth IMB worker dead after northern Iraq drive-by shooting

RICHMOND, Va. (IMB) -- A fourth American has been confirmed dead after a March 15 attack on five humanitarian workers in northern Iraq.

Three IMB workers killed in Iraq ambush
Two others wounded in drive-by shooting in northern city of Mosul

RICHMOND, Va. (BP/FBW)-Three Americans researching needs for humanitarian projects in northern Iraq were killed and two were wounded in a drive-by shooting March 15 in Mosul. The workers were in the area under the auspices of the Southern Baptist International Mission Board.