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March 24, 2009
Columbia: Six Months Later, Pastor Still Missing

This story comes from our friends at Compass Direct.  Read the full story here.

Please take a few minutes to offer up this family and the Rev. William Reyes in prayer.  Pray for their peace and comfort and for a break in this case.  Missing someone is hard, but not  even knowing where a person is, is even harder.  Thanks for praying today for this dear family and situation.


The Rev. William Reyes’ wife awaits word, fears for safety of her children.

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, March 23 (Compass Direct News) – Six months after the disappearance in Colombia of the Rev. William Reyes of Maicao, La Guajira, no one knows what happened to him. This week marks six months of agonizing uncertainty for the family of Rev. Reyes. On Sept. 25, 2008, the pastor of Light and Truth Inter-American Church disappeared en route home from a ministers’ meeting in Valledupar, a city in the neighboring department (state) of Cesar. Family members and friends fear that guerrilla fighters kidnapped the veteran minister; they have not seen or heard from him since his disappearance. Rev. Reyes and colleagues in the Fraternity of Evangelical Pastors of Maicao had received repeated threats from illegal armed groups operating in the La Guajira peninsula since March 2008. Guerrillas or their paramilitary rivals may have assassinated Rev. Reyes and disposed of his body, and some observers even speculate that he may have fallen victim to rogue units of the Colombian army that murder innocent civilians to inflate the body counts of “terrorists” killed in battle. But nobody knows for sure what happened to the 41-year-old father of three, ages 9 to 19. “Some days I feel so desperate, I don’t know what to do,” his wife, Idia Miranda de Reyes, told Compass by telephone from her home in Maicao. Through tears, she added, “My daughter Estefania helps me stay strong. She tells me, ‘Mama don’t cry,’ remember that God is with us.’”

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