“Over my dead body!” Those were Connie Beckler’s exact words more than seven years ago when she got the phone call that her daughter and son-in-law had committed to international missions. “I prayed for everything to go wrong,” Beckler, who is a member of Maywood Baptist Church, Independence, said. “I didn’t want them to go because they talked about India. They talked about Africa, and I thought, ‘Oh my. ... No!’”
