A death in Kenya.

Overnight, this happened in Kenya. From the Herald.

The van carrying Tauranga’s Bethlehem College Christian volunteers Grace and Dr Brian Johnston, and Caitlin Dickson rolled in heavy rain and ended up in a ditch on Tuesday night (NZ time).

Their Kenyan driver was also killed.

The trio were part of a group of seven adults and 12 students who had been building classrooms in the village of Ma’hanga since last month.

This morning friends of Miss Dickson, 19, former and current students will gather at Bethlehem College to pray.

A prayer service will be held tonight for Mr and Mrs Johnston.

The Johnstons leave behind 10 children aged from 14 to their early 30s. Brian Johnston was a long-serving anaesthetist with the Bay of Plenty District Health Board.

In the paper, there is an obit. for Caitlan. It reads in part.

I write with a heart so full of love and brokenness it might cave right in and flood right out. I’ll never forget the day a little blonde blue-eyed sweetheart waltzed up to me in kindergarten and announced “I like your rainbow T-shirt.” I’ll never forget that day because it changed my life.

She had a laugh that caught like fire. She had a heart that loved without the shackles of judgment. And she fought with all the strength of every warrior that has ever been. Caitlin’s heart pursued Jesus’ relentlessly and her feet moved for him with such courage and gumption.

OK, that was written by a fellow teenager, who was her bestie, but regardless, there are people hurting, and the families need our prayers.

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