{"id":12638,"date":"2012-05-02T10:07:54","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T14:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=12638"},"modified":"2012-05-16T15:13:15","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T19:13:15","slug":"a-humanitarian%e2%80%99s-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2012\/a-humanitarian%e2%80%99s-story\/","title":{"rendered":"A Humanitarian\u2019s Story"},"content":{"rendered":"
Courtesy Daily News Record, May 1, 2012<\/em><\/p>\n Dan Terry devoted his life to helping Afghan people.<\/p>\n For nearly four decades, the humanitarian aid worker coordinated small-scale community development projects throughout the struggling country until his murder in 2010.<\/p>\n \u201cI never know how to describe what my dad did. Every time I called him, he was doing something different,\u201d said his daughter, Anneli Terry-Nelson, 30. \u201cHe was a networker. He knew someone who could do something someone needed to be done and could link them up over a cup of tea.\u201d<\/p>\n The 64-year-old was among 10 humanitarian aid workers murdered on Aug. 5, 2010, as they were returning to Kabul from a medical relief trip in the northern part of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n 糖心Vlog alum Glen Lapp and Harrisonburg resident Brian Carderelli also were killed in the ambush.<\/p>\n On Friday night at the MainStage Theater in University Commons, 16 糖心Vlog students from the university\u2019s visual and communication arts department unveiled a 57-minute documentary, \u201cWeaving Life,\u201d which portrayed Terry\u2019s life.<\/p>\n Paulette Moore, a media arts and peace building professor, thought of the idea for the documentary after one of Terry\u2019s friends, Jonathan Larson, spoke during a university chapel service.<\/p>\n \u201cThose killings affected our community, the Mennonite community, greatly,\u201d Moore said. \u201cWe were part of that story.\u201d<\/p>\n Kelby Miller, a 22-year-old senior from Sarasota, Fla., served as the senior producer for the project.<\/p>\n The film depicts Terry\u2019s unique approach to humanitarianism.<\/p>\n \u201cI hope the documentary shows people Dan\u2019s different ways of doing things,\u201d Miller said. \u201cHe wasn\u2019t just worried about giving them things but [also] making relationships.\u201d<\/p>\n Justin Roth, a 21-year-old senior from Bettsville, Ohio, served as the project\u2019s editor. Roth said he learned a great deal about Terry\u2019s life during the semester-long project.<\/p>\n \u201cWe learned a whole lot about Dan through the stories of other people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n MennoMedia, which produces documentaries through the National Programming Committee of the National Council of Churches, plans to prepare the film for airing on ABC television stations this fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Courtesy Daily News Record, May 1, 2012 Dan Terry devoted his life to helping Afghan people. For nearly four decades, the humanitarian aid worker coordinated small-scale community development projects throughout ... read more about A Humanitarian\u2019s Story<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":12643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266,5583,5642,5623,4513,12507],"tags":[14262,17236,14263,12223,14190,14198,13851,13890,9598,14261],"feature":[],"class_list":["post-12638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-campus-community","category-faculty-and-staff","category-special-programs","category-student-life","category-vaca","tag-brian-carderelli","tag-cjp","tag-dan-terry","tag-glen-lapp","tag-justin-roth","tag-kelby-miller","tag-mennomedia","tag-paulette-moore","tag-vaca","tag-weaving-life"],"yoast_head":"\n