This Washington Post story provides more details about the death of PCA member Brian Carderelli, as well about what happened with his family and church during the days following the slaying.

When videographer Brian Carderelli left Kabul three weeks ago to accompany a team of doctors on a medical mission to northern Afghanistan, the 25-year-old from Harrisonburg, Va., was well aware of the dangers ahead. He knew that other aid workers had been killed and that the long journey on pack animals through the Hindu Kush could be perilous.

But he had fallen in love with the country and its people when he moved to Afghanistan in September, shortly after graduating from James Madison University with a degree in digital journalism.

When the doctors asked him along on the trip to Nuristan province, he said yes — eager to see a remote area of the country where residents normally get little medical care.

His father, Mike, is an administrator for an international school in Kabul, but his parents were home in Harrisonburg on summer break. They were getting daily updates via e-mail and satellite phone on their son’s progress as he slogged with the group of 10 through rivers swollen by rain and up steep slopes.

Then, Friday, nothing.

“They started getting worried,” said J.D. Patton (a Ruling Elder at Covenant Presbyterian church and) a family friend from Harrisonburg. “Then they learned there was an attack.”

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