As you pray for Afghanistan, please include a prayer for MCC Afghanistan and our local partners there. For security reasons I can’t share details but it is a time of immense fear, sorrow, and lamentation.

Please also take a moment to remember Glen Lapp, a MCC service worker who was killed in Afghanistan in 2010.

Glen and nine other members of a medical team were killed in a shooting attack in Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province, while returning from a trip to conduct an eye camp in a rural area. All of the team members worked with an MCC partner organization. The team had been testing and treating people with eye diseases in Nuristan province for about two weeks at the invitation of communities there. Local police said robbery might have been a motive for the attack, but the exact circumstances of their deaths may never be known. Glen, 40, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, would have completed his MCC term in October 2010, and had recently written, “Where I was (Afghanistan), the main thing that expats can do is be a presence . . . . Treating people with respect and love and trying to be a little bit of Christ . 

MCC.org, Those Who Gave All, https://mcc.org/centennial/100-stories/those-who-gave-all