By Jim Nieman
RICK JETT (LEFT) AND DAVID STINE
After 16 years on the board of IDES followed by 19 years as the organization’s executive director,
Rick Jett has transitioned out of the latter role and
David
Since 2016, Stine has served as director of operations with
IDES International Disaster Emergency Service a Christian church/church of Christ organization incorporated in 1973 to provide emergency assistance via missionaries who were in or near disaster situations around the world.
“I am honored to continue the legacy of meeting the physical and spiritual needs of suffering people throughout the world in the name of Jesus Christ,” Stine said.
Age 80, of Branch in Lake County, formerly of Ludington, Lansing and Owosso, and Beaver Dam, Kentucky, passed away Friday, Dec. 19, 2020, at Butterworth Hospital in Grand Rapids.
Three Michigan toddlers and their mothers, a former Detroit schoolteacher seeking to surprise her family for Christmas, local Army veterans, teens and executives were onboard when Pan Am Flight 103 exploded Dec. 21, 1988, over Lockerbie, Scotland.
Now, 32 years later, outgoing Attorney General William Barr has announced charges against another suspect in the bombing that killed 270 people, including 16 people with Michigan ties.
Abu Agila Muhammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi is accused of making the bomb used in the attack on the New York-bound flight from London amid the regime of Moammar Gadhafi in Libya.
Two Libyan intelligence officers, Abdel Baset Ali al-Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah, were previously charged in a special Scottish court in the attack. Al-Megrahi was convicted but Fhimah was acquitted.