(Christian Headlines) An Iowa pastor has raised over $300,000 in just three days to support five young children whose parents died just four months apart.
Last Friday, the children’s father, Bazirake Kayira, died in a car accident during an ice storm. Four months earlier, Kayira’s wife died during childbirth.
Following the tragic losses of both parents, Pastor Eugene Kiruhura of Shalom Covenant Church in Urbandale, Iowa, launched a GoFundMe this week to support Kayira’s family.
“Bazirake was one of the African refugee/immigrant community members living in Des Moines,” Kiruhura wrote the GoFundMe page. “He died Friday afternoon after crashing his vehicle into a creek during the ice storm.