You may have heard the news about the canyoning disaster in New Zealand recently: six children and their teacher died when the river they were in flooded suddenly.



It was shocking news for us because the teacher who died, Tony McClean, had recently spent five months with us here in Pokhara. He was a great guy and in the short time we knew him he was a running partner, guitar teacher and good friend.




It is so hard to know why this happened and what good can possibly come from it, but we have to trust that somehow God will be able to work through this.