I didn’t know Davy and Natalie. We may have happened upon some of the same places, but not at the same time.

I do know people who at least knew of them or their family or the school director who was also killed that day.

But, feeling some camaraderie toward any missionaries in Haiti, I tuned into part of the live streamed memorial service today.

Her father spoke. His father spoke. And then Davy spoke. They shared video clips of several sermons he had preached over the past few years, and then they shifted to footage of Davy and Natalie praying with children in a worship service in Haiti.

Next was the part that got me – a video of Natalie sitting at a piano, playing and singing. “Jesus is the answer for the world today. Above him there’s no other. Jesus is the way.”

The purity of her rendition of a song written decades before she was born.

The truth that still stands.

That Jesus is the answer.

Young, resolute faith.

A shared hope for the people of Haiti.

A shared hope for us all.

I didn’t know Davy and Natalie. But, we are part of the same family, the same body, the same hope.

I am encouraged by the lives they lived, appalled by how their lives were taken, and grateful for the testimony they shared today.

I hope for a day when Haiti shares her testimony with the world.

I pray for peace and open eyes and ears. To hear the stories of Haiti. The horrific and traumatic lived experiences and the testimonies of deep faith and rich hope.

May we continue to believe Jesus is the answer.