Our church family knows that we prayed in our services for AIM missionaries and their families touched last week by an airplane crash. One of the team, Mike Delorenzo wrote a tribute to the pilot who died.
We held a memorial service for Frank yesterday here in Nairobi. All us pilots were in uniform, wearing the whitest flight shirts we could find in our closets. We gathered with the entire AIM AIR team, and also the broader AIM family – coworkers as well as some of the missionaries who Frank served. In the service, and in much of the sorrow we’ve shared this past week, we have caught a glimpse of the beauty of the Body, the Church, as it was meant to be. But yesterday was a hard day nonetheless. And both Renee and I went to bed with a level of emotional and physical exhaustion I have never experienced before.
I had the honor of writing a short tribute for Frank for the service, which really just made me miss him more. Here it is below:
***There’s an empty place in the AIM AIR pilot’s room at the hangar. The vacant desk is neatly arranged. . .
Read the whole thing here.
HT: Challies
This was very touching, and hard to get through without tears. What a blessing these men were, and what a blessing all of you are, who bring so much to our lives through preaching, teaching, and just being there.