WEDNESDAY. 7.2003
NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN • 5A
Student missionaries travel world
By Cal Creek
ccreek@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
While many students will be spending the summer poolside or returning home to the comfort of their parents' abode, a select few students will be dedicating the 12 weeks of their summer to spreading the words of their faiths.
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"I just have a passion for youth ministry," said Katie Laird, Leawood sophomore.
Laird will work with Youth Works, a Minneapolis-based missions organization that sends middle-school and high-school students to different areas of the world.
Laird said she would be a staff worker in Brooklyn, N.Y. The
staff workers guide 50 to 60 students as they help with vacation Bible school programs and work project programs.
She began working with Youth Works in high school when she went to Juarez, Mexico, on three different occasions and West Virginia once.
"I'm kind of excited, kind of nervous, not really fearful, it's exhilarating." Laird said.
Laird said she was inspired by a youth minister she had as a middle-school student who she said poured his faith into her life.
While Laird will be staying in country, other KU students will be spreading their faith to all corners of the globe.
Campus Christians will send a group of students on a trip to
Kenya and a trip to Haiti.
Sara Corbin, LaPorte, Texas senior and Campus Christians president, will be going on the three-week trip to Kenya.
"This is a way to step out of the American culture and see what we believe to be a universal God working in a different culture," Corbin said.
This is not Corbin's first missionary trip. She went to Haiti two years ago.
While in Kenya, the group plans to teach classes, clean up slum areas and possibly build a church.
"In the slums I saw children playing in sewage. I saw all sorts of things." Corbin said. She said images like those forced Americans to see how other cultures lived, and how to
learn from it
"Our job is to reach the nations of the world," Erik Fish, campus director, said.
Victory Campus Ministries, the campus arm of the Morning Star Church will send a group of students to Sierra Leone in July.
While Fish won't be going on the trip, campus minister Naomi Carson will.
Carson said the group would help "plant," or start, a Morning Star church. To do this they will speak to people in the area around the church about their views on Jesus Christ and God.
"I think it's important for college students to make an impact on the world," Fish said.
Kansas worker testifies in bombing trial
- Edited by Andrew Ward
The Associated Press
OKLAHOMA CITY — A quarry worker testifying yesterday at a preliminary hearing for Terry Nichols said blasting caps had been stolen from his workplace a few months before the Oklahoma City bombing.
Allen Radtke, who works as a driller and blaster at a rock quarry near Marion said that on Oct. 3, 1994, he had discovered the caps and detonation boosters had been stolen. The quarry is about 25 miles from Herington, where Nichols lived at the time.
"There were several hundred caps missing from the cap magazine," he said.
Prosecutors said the caps and detonation boosters were used in the bomb that destroyed the Oklahoma City federal building on April 19, 1995.
Stuart Vogts, an employee for the Mid-Kansas Co-Op in Galva
testified that Nichols tried to buy ammonium nitrate fertilizer in December 1994. Vogts said he referred Nichols to a different store because he didn't have it. The fertilizer was a main component in the bomb.
The statements came at a preliminary hearing in which prosecutors tried to build a case for trying Nichols on 160 state murder charges that could bring the death penalty.
On Monday, the first day of the hearing, Nichols' ex-wife, Lana Padilla, recalled a telephone conversation in which he spoke bitterly about the government's botched 1993 raid on the Branch Davidian complex in Waco, Texas, in which 80 people were killed.
"There were innocent people killed and the government was wrong in doing it," Padilla quoted Nichols as saying.
Authorities allege the attack on the Oklahoma City federal
building, on the second anniversary of the Waco raid, was a twisted plot to avenge the cult disaster.
Padilla denied making statements to the FBI that described Nichols as a secretive, antigovernment survivalist.District Judge Allen McCall admonished Padilla over the denial and accused her of being "evasive."
Nichols, 48, was previously convicted on federal conspiracy and involuntary manslaughter charges for the deaths of eight law enforcement officers in the bombing, which killed 168 people. He is serving a life sentence. The state charges involve victims who were not part of Nichols' federal trial.
Prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty and say that, at minimum, a state conviction is needed to eliminate any possibility that Nichols could get his federal conviction overturned
on appeal and gain freedom.
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Padilla, who was married to Nichols for eight years in the 1980s, said she was surprised to discover several months before the bombing that Nichols had amassed thousands of dollars in cash and supplies.
Prosecutors said Nichols participated in a series of robberies and thefts to raise money to carry out the bombing.
Nichols was at home in Kansas the day the bomb exploded. But prosecutors said helped McVeigh deliver a getaway car to Oklahoma City and worked with McVeigh to pack the bomb inside a Ryder truck the day before the bombing.
They also said Nichols and Timothy McVeigh worked together to prepare a 4,000-pound fuel-and-fertilizer bomb that destroyed the building.
McVeigh was convicted on federal murder charges and was executed in June 2001.
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