Two North American Mission Board (NAMB) student missionaries remain in critical condition after the Jeep Cherokee in which they and two others were riding flipped and rolled over on Interstate 90 near Belgrade, Mont., July 21.
At last report, Jeremy Vangsnes, a student missionary from Spartanburg, S.C., was listed in critical condition after being flown by helicopter from Bozeman’s Deaconess Hospital to St. Vincent Hospital in Billings. On a ventilator, Vangsnes is reportedly showing brain activity but remains unconscious.
The driver of the SUV was Scott Minear, a Georgia Baptist Convention student missionary who is active in University of Georgia Baptist campus ministries. Minear also was airlifted to the Billings hospital following the accident and remains in critical but not life-threatening condition.
Vangsnes was one of three brothers involved in the single-car accident while on assignment as NAMB student missionaries in the West Yellowstone, Mont.
His brother Daniel is still in the Bozeman hospital while another brother, Ryan, has been treated and released. The Vangsnes brothers’ parents were en route to Billings from their home in Spartanburg, S.C., at press time.
Amy Signaigo, student consultant for NAMB, said the four student missionaries are part of NAMB’s Innovator resort ministry program around the United States. She said the accident victims were four of 17 self-funded student missionaries working this summer in the Yellowstone Park area under the supervision of NAMB full-time resort missionary Brad Lartigue.
Alabama Baptists Jean and Liz Page and Ed and Brenda Geiger, from Alabaster, are also there serving as house parents to the students through Mission Service Corps. (BP, TAB)
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