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News Chapeco, Brazil: Adventists Share Hope at Brazilian Plane Crash Funeral
by Andrew McChesney, Adventist Mission
Seventh-day Adventists joined tens of thousands of people at Brazil's Chapecoense stadium to mourn those killed in the crash of a soccer team’s airplane, and to share their hope in the resurrection at Jesus’ Second Coming.
A total of 71 people died when a plane carrying the Chapecoense soccer team crashed Nov. 28 near Medellin, Colombia. Six survived. The cause of the plane crash is still undetermined but a preliminary investigation points to electrical failure.
Dozens of coffins arrived at the team’s home stadium in Chapeco, a city of 210,000 people in southern Brazil, following a procession through the streets on Saturday.
Church members stood in the rain to distribute thousands of copies of the book “The Only Hope” by Adventist evangelist Alejandro Bullon, as well as custom-labeled bottles of water and cards bearing the promise of Revelation 21:4, “And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away” (NKJV).