pray for cy mizell and muhammad hadi

Recently, I received this email from the Asian Rural Life Development Foundation:

"You may be aware that Asian Rural Life Development Foundation worker, Cyd
Mizell, and her driver, Muhammad Hadi, were taken at gunpoint January 26th
in Afghanistan. We continue to be hopeful that the two will be released
unharmed soon.

We have received innumerable e-mails and phone calls offering emotional
encouragement and prayers. We are grateful for these. For continuing
updates, check our web site www.arldf.net


Asian Rural Life Development Foundation is a humanitarian aid organization
that works throughout Asia helping to provide a better quality of life for
the poor, mainly through community development projects. In the area of
Afghanistan where Mizell works, ARLDF personnel serve in education and
projects that help people learn skills to better their lives and the lives
of their families. Aid efforts in the region also include food-for-work
projects, irrigation, rehabilitation, health care and restoration projects.

Mizell has worked with ARLDF for nearly three years, helping women and
families with income-generating projects, teaching English at a high school
and embroidery lessons at a girls' school. Hadi has worked two years as a
driver for the organization. He is married and has five children.

Although our attention and focus is on this difficult situation, our ARLDF
workers and their national colleagues throughout Asia are continuing their
work. When this situation is resolved, we expect Mizell and Hadi will want
to continue their work with ARLDF."