U.S. missionary kidnapped in Niger

[Revmitchell]

Gunmen kidnapped an American missionary from his home in central Niger and killed two other people. The incident is apparently the first reported kidnapping of an American in the region.

Jeffery Woodke
Photo from Facebook
On Oct. 14, the attackers stormed into Jeffery Woodke's home in the town of Abalak, killing his guard and housekeeper, Niger's interior ministry said in a statement the following day. The armed men, driving a white Toyota Hilux pickup truck, took Woodke and headed across the desert toward Mali.


"Our forces are on their trail," Interior Minister Mohamed Bazoum said. "The president of the republic is personally following the situation and our forces are fully mobilized to capture them and put an end to this disastrous affair."

http://www.bpnews.net/47782/us-missionary-kidnapped-in-niger

 

[Alcott]

A lot of people will care less about the kidnapped missionary than about how the name of the country was pronounced in the native language.

 

[TCassidy]

A lot of people will care less about the kidnapped missionary than about how the name of the country was pronounced in the native language.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/En-us-Niger.ogg

 

[annsni]

This week is our missions week at church and we have numerous missionaries in town for the event. It breaks my heart to think that this happens to people who are being faithful to the Lord Jesus Christ in going into all the world. My prayers are with him!