“… The funeral was scheduled for the following Saturday. During that week our home was filled with people of every hour of everyday-neighbors, Tim’s fellow students, colleagues, and friends from our Kenyan church-enveloped us un their love and care. Probably the biggest surprise of the week came on Thursday when Omar Aziz, our senior Somali staff member still living in Mogadishu appeared at the front door. I stunned to hear him say, ‘I walked here from Somaliland; I had to come help bury our son, Timothy. …”~Nik Ripken