Posted: 7/17/06
Forney group trapped in Lebanon
By John Hall
Texas Baptist Communications
FORNEY—Ten people from First Baptist Church in Forney are trapped in Lebanon as the Hezbollah militia continues fighting with Israel.
The Beirut airport has been shut down after missiles repeatedly pounded it. The fighting started when Hezbollah guerillas kidnapped two Israeli soldiers in a border raid. Hezbollah is a Shiite militant group with a strong presence in southern Lebanon.
Charles Treadway, First Baptist Church’s minister of education, who did not accompany the group to Lebanon, told the Dallas Morning News the church is working to get its members home.
“Prayer is our main focus at this point during these hours,” he said.
The church asked that the group’s exact location and names of group members not be released through the media, although one trip-taker has written about what is happening via a blog.
“We continue to be on a holding pattern,” reads a post from July 13, the last on the site. “Everyone is well, and our spirits are good. We are confident that God is in control and that he has great purposes in all things. We have no idea when travel will be available, so pray that soon we will begin our journey home.
“Jesus is everything.”
The U.S. government is working to evacuate as many as 25,000 U.S. citizens trapped in Lebanon.
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