WGNNews.org
Posted 7:10
P.M. : December 31, 2002
Missionaries were devoted to work
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — One of the medical
missionaries gunned down in Yemen had devoted 24 years of
her life to helping women and children there, one had been
there a decade and the third was less than a year from
retirement.
"She loved the people very much. She
felt like that was home," Ira Myers said of his daughter,
Dr. Martha C. Myers.
A gunman entered the complex of Jibla Baptist Hospital
in the Yemeni city of Jibla yesterday hiding a semiautomatic
rifle under his jacket to make it resemble a child,
according to Yemeni officials.
The Richmond-based Baptist mission
board has nearly 5,500 missionaries worldwide.
Board spokeswoman Wendy Norvelle said more than 40,000
patients are treated annually at the Yemeni hospital, which
provides free care and medicine to people who cannot afford
it.
