Japan-Bound Missionaries Killed in Tragic Accident
A truck driver killed a missionary family when his vehicle collided into theirs, igniting a furnace between the two vehicles.
Jamison and Kathryne Pals were traveling for missions training before they moved to Japan with their three children.
Jamison wrote grants for Feed My Starving Children for years before deciding to move to Asia.
The company said in a statement:
Death and life. Hunger and fulfillment. Sorrow and joy. At Feed My Starving Children, we wade in the mire of these dichotomies daily.
We know that more than 6,000 children a day die from hunger related causes. We grieve. We take action. We hope. We do it all again the next day.
We are about life, despite so often being surrounded by death.
This week we lost one of our own. Jamison Pals was a grant writer for FMSC for the past three years. He left us in April to pursue missions in Japan with his family. While here, he touched countless lives. He was about to touch countless more through ministry in Japan.
Not only were we inspired as staff by his heart for Christ, but thousands upon thousands of children will live because of the work he did as a grant writer.
He died with his family on a road in Nebraska. His wife, Kathryne. His two toddlers, Ezra and Violet. A two-month-old infant named Calvin. The thought is almost incomprehensible.
The family was blogging at Joy of Japan before their deaths. They’d partnered with World Venture, and were expected to move in October.
Please lift their extended family up in this time of heartache.
