A daughter's love "I count it the highest honor to be known as your daughter," Samantha Koehn McGlothlin wrote in a letter to her father, Bill Koehn, after he was slain Dec. 30 in Yemen at the Baptist hospital where he had worked 30 years

     BURLESON, Texas (BP)--During a memorial service in honor of their father, the daughters of slain Southern Baptist hospital administrator Bill Koehn made public letters they had written to their father after they received news of his death.      The letters, friends and family said, were part of the daughters' process of grieving and a way to honor their father's service. Janelda Koehn Pearce and Samantha Koehn McGlothlin granted permission for Baptist Press to reprint the letters.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Audio clips of Al Lindholm and Lee Hixon, Southern Baptist International Mission Board colleagues of three slain Baptist workers in Yemen, are on the Internet at:

SANAA, Yemen (BP)--About 275 Yemenis, Americans and other internationals gathered Jan. 1 to remember the lives of three International Mission Board workers murdered Dec. 30 at the Baptist hospital in Jibla, Yemen.

Martha Myers

     RICHMOND, Va. (BP)--The bullet that took Martha Myers' life came from a weapon disguised as a sick child.      What a bittersweet irony.      Myers, 57, delivered, vaccinated, healed, comforted and cared for thousands of children during her 24 years as a physician at the Baptist hospital in Jibla, Yemen. Her Southern Baptist colleague, hospital administrator Bill Koehn, made toys for Yemeni kids in his spare time.      The Yemeni man who got a semiautomatic pistol past hospital guards Dec. 30 by cradling it like an infant apparently knew what he was doing: targeting American Christians.

A love for Yemeni children Physician Martha Myers, one of three Southern Baptist workers slain in Yemen Dec. 30, especially loved children, many of whom she had cared for and helped deliver at the Jibla Baptist Hospital in the Middle Eastern country.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (BP)--If Martha Myers had been told that she would be shot and killed in Yemen, she would have stayed there, her friends and relatives believe.

3 decades of care William Koehn, one of three Southern Baptist workers slain Dec. 30 in Yemen, was photographed here with a patient at the Jibla Baptist Hospital, where he had worked nearly three decades.

MANSFIELD, Texas (BP)--William Koehn spent nearly three decades serving the people of Yemen in response to God's call.

MILWAUKEE, Wis. (BP)--Kathleen Gariety knew the immense danger of living in Yemen as an American and a Christian, but she saw the people around her as good friends and neighbors, her pastor told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

SANAA, Yemen (BP)--International Mission Board workers in Yemen are grieving the deaths of three colleagues, but they are more convinced than ever that God is working in Yemeni hearts.

SANAA, Yemen (BP)--If the gunman who murdered three Christian workers Dec. 30 in Jibla, Yemen, intended to take their lives, he did not succeed, one of their co-workers said on the day two of the victims were buried in the Middle Eastern country.

RICHMOND, Va. (BP)--A short video honoring the three Southern Baptist hospital workers who were shot and killed in Yemen Dec. 30 has been posted on the International Mission Board's website.