With Heavy Hearts...

The AIM family is grieving right now. On Saturday, August 1, at approximately 2:30 pm Nairobi time, a Cessna 206 owned by AIM AIR crashed into some apartment buildings here in Nairobi. On board were the pilot, an AIM missionary, a mechanic, also an AIM missionary, and two passengers who were on board to film Kibera slum.

The pilot, Frank Toews, did not survive the crash and went home to be with the Lord. The mechanic, Ryan Williams, is in the hospital with severe injuries including burns, a broken hip, crushed pelvis, and other fractures. One of the photojournalists is also in the hospital, and the other one was able to get out of the plane in time and only had a few cuts and scrapes.

These families need your prayers. We don’t know the cause of the crash and won’t even begin to speculate and would ask you to do the same. What we know is that we need to pray for the Toews family…Frank left behind his wife and four young children, and also for the Williams family…Ryan has a very long road of recovery ahead of him…pray for his healing, as well as for his wife and four children as they deal with this difficult time.

Please also pray for the photojournalists that were on the flight. Pray for God’s will to be done in their lives and for God to work in their hearts.

We don’t understand why something like this had to happen, but we rest in the fact that God is in control. We know that God is good. And we know that God hears our prayers. So please pray.

If you want to see news footage, you can go online and check out “airplane crash Nairobi”.