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	Dayna Curry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Dayna Curry (born November 4, 1971) is an American citizen, who was held a prisoner by Taliban government of Afghanistan in 2001.
		A social work major, Dayna volunteered at the Waco Center for Youth (a residential facility treats teenagers with emotional and behavioral problems) while she was attending Baylor.
		Dayna Curry and Heather Mercer got to know each other in Waco when they both joined the Antioch Community Church, an evangelical, non-denominational church.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dayna_Curry (334 words)

	Dayna curry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Dayna Curry and Heather Mercer were persecuted for their faith, held captive by the Taliban for more than three months.
		Dayna Curry, 30, described the extraordinary rescue in a phone call Wednesday night to her father and stepmother in Nashville, hours after she and the seven...
		Dayna Curry and Heather Mercer are two young women whose obedience to God’s call to serve the poorest of the poor led them to Afghanistan.
	www.learnbagpipes.com /dayna+curry.html (1178 words)

	Dayna Curry's stateside family helped mobilize worldwide prayer - (BP) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Dayna Curry's aunt, Barbara Cassell, left, cousin Leanne Malone and uncle Harold Cassell helped mobilize worldwide prayer for the safety and freedom of Curry and other aid workers in Afghanistan.
		After talking with Curry, the family noted she is still humble and does not view herself as a "hero" because of her Christianity.
		Curry also expressed that she was not concerned about her safety.
	www.bpnews.net /bpnews.asp?ID=12353 (1025 words)

	JS Online: US Family Fears for Worker's Safety
		Dayna Curry's family found hope in phone calls and e-mails with the woman's mother, who went to Afghanistan to be close to her daughter.
		Curry's mother, Nancy Cassell, a teacher from the Nashville suburb of Thompson's Station, was forced to leave Afghanistan with Mercer's parents after the terrorist attacks because of safety concerns.
		Dayna Curry's birthday is Nov. 4, and her family hopes she will be back by then for a big party.
	www.jsonline.com /news/attack/ap/sep01/ap-attacks-aid-wor092201.asp (553 words)

	Special Forces rescue Dayna Curry and 7 colleagues from Taliban captivity - Thursday, 11/15/01 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Curry, the 30-year-old Nashville native arrested by the Taliban on Aug. 3 in Afghanistan, and seven of her co-workers were transported to freedom by U.S. military helicopters yesterday.
		When Tilden Curry arrived at the church for a dinner a little before 5:30 p.m., he thought it would be at least another day before his daughter would be free from an ordeal that included imprisonment, a trial, suggestions of a death penalty, and a forced move when the Taliban fled Kabul on Monday.
		Curry's brother, who was with Fuller when CBS News called their home just before they left for church, said he ''wasn't that worried'' before Sept. 11.
	www.tennessean.com /special/worldtrade/archives/01/11/10561779.shtml?Element_ID=10561779 (990 words)

	CMD Mission Book Information Service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Dayna Curry grew up outside Nashville, Tennessee, and attended Baylor University in Waco, Texas, where she majored in social work.
		Dayna seems to have good command of the language and I hope she is able to put this skill to use in the future to help this culture she appreciates.
		Curry, Mercer, and other arrested aid workers were able to order food and supplies from outside and allowed to stay together.
	www.cmd.org.nz /bookinfo/curry.htm (1838 words)

	Crosswalk.com - Dayna Curry Challenges Christians to Answer Call to Missions
		Curry, 30, and Heather Mercer, 24, were rescued from Afghanistan after more than three months in a Taliban prison in Kabul on charges of preaching Christianity to Muslims in Afghanistan.
		Curry prefaced her remarks with a prayer that challenged other Christians to answer the call to missions.
		Curry said there are so many sick and ailing people in the country that prayer is more effective than going to the hospital.
	www.learnathome.com /news/1109230.html (732 words)

	CNN Programs - People in the News
		In Tennessee, Dayna's father, Tilden Curry, was standing in line at a church supper when he heard that his daughter was freed.
		Dayna, whose parents divorced when she was young, spent her childhood in Forest Hills, a wealthy suburb just outside of Nashville, Tennessee.
		Dayna and Heather found their work cut out for them in Afghanistan, which has suffered from war and poverty for decades.
	www.cnn.com /CNN/Programs/people/shows/curry.mercer/profile.html (2058 words)

	Dayna Curry challenges Christians to answer call to missions - (BP) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Dayna Curry was all smiles at the annual Nashville Christmas Parade held Dec. 1.
		Curry said The Jesus Film is especially powerful for the poor, noting that for many it is the first film they've seen.
		Dayna Curry, center, was the guest of honor at the Nashville Christmas Parade.
	www.bpnews.net /bpnews.asp?ID=12327 (845 words)

	CNN.com - Transcripts
		CURRY: Well, I mean, it was really scary when the bombs came close, and even there was a couple times our doors were flung open and the windows flung open from the bomb that was pretty close by.
		CURRY: Sure, I want to continue working with the poor, and helping the widows there, and the children, and -- yes and any opportunity I can to share about Jesus when there is an opportunity, it would be great.
		CURRY: Really, no. I mean, because they really did treat us well, and even some of them told us we were like their sisters, and treated us -- exceptionally well, considering.
	edition.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0111/27/lkl.02.html (2833 words)

	Dayna Curry & Heather Mercer's freedom celebrated by president, intercessors - (BP) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Curry and Heather Mercer and six other western aid workers were in Islamabad, Pakistan, after being rescued Nov. 15 in pre-dawn Afghanistan, having been freed amid an anti-Taliban uprising in the city of Ghazni.
		Curry and Mercer were seen briefly on an ABC News report the morning of Nov. 15 with joyous smiles and voicing quick words of excitement over their freedom as they were entering a van in Islamabad.
		Curry and Mercer were reunited later in the day with various family members who had been holding vigil in Islamabad since the workers' arrest.
	www.sbcbaptistpress.org /bpnews.asp?ID=12171 (1088 words)

	Texas-Size Homecoming - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Mercer and Curry were aid workers with the German--based organization Shelter Now International and were arrested with six other workers on Aug. 3 on charges they were converting Muslims to Christianity - a violation of Taliban law.
		Curry said they had been watched by the Taliban for some time prior to their arrest.
		Mercer and Curry plan to write a book cataloging their time in Afghanistan and produce a compact disc comprised of the songs they sang while in captivity.
	www.dailytexanonline.com /media/paper410/news/2001/12/10/News/TexasSize.Homecoming-505546.shtml (721 words)

	Crosswalk.com - Dayna Curry, Heather Mercer & the future of Christianity
		Curry and Mercer are both women who abandoned routine participation in American culture because of radical Christian conversion experiences that illuminated for them the emptiness of the American dream.
		Curry talked about growing up in a nominally Christian home, dabbling in worldly pleasures, but then finding Christ in college and gradually becoming committed to foreign mission work.
		I waited in vain, for example, during Curry and Mercer's speaking engagement here at Union University Feb. 20 for substantive reflection on the issues raised by clandestine lawbreaking and the systematic deceit required to spread the Christian message in a country that forbids it.
	www.learnathome.com /1127564.html (727 words)

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		She was going to join Dayna Curry, another Baylor alum, working with Shelter Now, a Germany-based relief agency.
		Dayna and Heather lived and worked among the Afghans-people they found welcoming and generous, hurting and poor.
		Dayna and Heather knew they had diplomats, lawyers and parents working for their release-with no success.
	www.thetask.org /students/Archives/currymercer.htm (1129 words)

	CNN.com - Transcripts
		His daughter, 29-year-old Dayna Curry, is imprisoned in a small cell in the center of the Afghan capital.
		Dayna Curry spent her childhood years here in Forest Hills, a wealthy suburb just outside Nashville, Tennessee.
		Dayna's parents divorced when she was a young girl.
	edition.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0110/27/pitn.00.html (3272 words)

	Charisma Magazine Online
		When Dayna Curry and Heather Mercer signed up for an exploratory missionary trip to Kabul, Afghanistan, in the summer of 1998, they knew it wouldn't be a vacation.
		Curry, who is 30, and Mercer reached out to people of all ages, from poor street kids to elderly widows in need of hope.
		Curry, Mercer and the six other workers went to the location late at night and waited by the flame of a small oil lamp for the U.S. rescue team.
	www.charismamag.com /a.php?ArticleID=6496 (5437 words)

	Heather Mercer and Dayna Curry, hostages or criminals. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		So in conclusion, yes I feel that both Heather Mercer and Dayna Curry are criminals, they do not think what they did was wrong, in their brainwashed minds they were just doing gods work.
		Both Heather and Dayna are now back in the United States, Dayna Curry and Heather Mercer were arrested and held last August, and insisted that the bulk of their efforts in Afghanistan involved providing humanitarian assistance.
		Christian Missionaries have continued to be a plague on the rest of the world, from spreading disease and death in the early days, to the disease of Christianity in the present, they continue to leave a trail of destruction, and have left many countries worse of then before they arrived.
	www.valleyskeptic.com /mercer_curry.html (1973 words)

	Christian Activities - World Missions
		When Dayna Curry and Heather Mercer arrived in Afghanistan, they had some to help bring a better life and a little hope to some of the poorest and most oppressed people in the world.
		In Prisoners of Hope, Dayna Curry and Heather Mercer tell the story of their work in Afghanistan, their love for the people they served, trial and imprisonment by the Taliban, and their rescue by U.S. Special Forces.
		Dayna Curry grew up outside Nashville and attended Baylor University in Waco, TX, where she majored in social work.
	www.christianactivities.com /missions/story.asp?ID=+2340 (408 words)

	The Red Cross Global Network: Family Messages Reach Imprisoned Aid Workers
		Dayna Curry and Heather Mercer speak to reporters after their November 15 release.
		For the family and friends of humanitarian aid workers Dayna Curry and Heather Mercer, who were released Nov. 15 after more than three months of imprisonment, the nightmare began on August 3.
		Heather and Dayna were captured with six other aid workers — four German and two Australian — who were traveling together as part of a Christian aid group called Shelter Now International.
	www.redcross.org /news/in/afghanistan/011120messages.html (1436 words)

	Dayna Curry Will Celebrate Her 30th Birthday in a Taliban Prison - Christianity Today Magazine
		Dayna Curry, detained in Afghanistan on charges of promoting Christianity, at one time hoped to be released in time for her 30th birthday on Sunday.
		When she wrote, Curry was certain enough of her release that her biggest prayer request was for safe exit from the country.
		Dayna Curry's aunts in Denham Springs, Louisiana, are planning a November 4 charity birthday celebration for their niece.
	www.christianitytoday.com /ct/2001/144/53.0.html (1376 words)

	Baylor University \|\| Public Relations \|\| News
		Curry and Mercer, who are members of Antioch, will share their story at the service.
		We are thankful that those prayers have been answered and that Heather and Dayna are being reunited with their families.
		Before Curry began her association with Shelter Now, she was a social worker with the Waco Independent School District.
	www.baylor.edu /pr/news.php?action=story&story=3826 (573 words)

	Prisoners of Hope
		Dayna Curry and Heather Mercer arrived in Afghanistan determined to help bring a better life and a little hope to some of the poorest and most oppressed people in the world.
		Fearing Curry and Mercer could not survive in the midst of war, Christians across America and around the world prayed faithfully for their safe return, and in November their prayers were answered.
		In their book, Prisoners of Hope, Dayna Curry and Heather Mercer tell the story of their work in Afghanistan; their love for the people they served; their arrest, trial and imprisonment by the Taliban; and their rescue by U.S. Special Forces.
	www.charitywire.com /charity63/03227.html (354 words)

	Curry & Mercer urge Baptists to spread gospel despite cost
		Dayna Curry and Heather Mercer speak to reporters prior to their address to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting.Van Payne/BP The Baylor University graduates, who worked in Afghanistan with the Shelter Now International relief ministry, were arrested last August on charges of sharing their Christian faith with Muslims.
		Prior to enrolling at Baylor, Curry said, she was involved in drinking, drugs and had an abortion.
		Emphasizing that "the harvest is great but the laborers are few," Curry noted that God has blessed Southern Baptists with the resources to impact the world with the gospel.
	www.baptiststandard.com /2002/6_17/pages/curry.html (964 words)

	Curry & Mercer to address messengers at SBC meeting - (BP)
		NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Dayna Curry and Heather Mercer, the two relief workers who were held captive in Afghanistan, have accepted an invitation to address messengers during the Southern Baptist Convention meeting in St. Louis.
		"We are thrilled that Dayna and Heather have accepted our invitation to be the guests of the Executive Committee," said Morris H. Chapman, president and chief executive officer of the SBC Executive Committee.
		Curry, 30, and Mercer, 24, both graduates of Baylor University and members of the Antioch Community Church in Waco, Texas, were among eight westernerns arrested by the Taliban in August and charged with breaking Muslim law by teaching Christianity.
	www.sbcbaptistpress.org /bpnews.asp?ID=13057 (436 words)

	Adventist Review: A Conversation with Dayna Curry and Heather Mercer
		We hope people are encouraged and motivated by our story to serve the poor in other nations of the world, that people will be prompted to give their lives for something bigger than themselves.
		Dayna: We want readers to see what the lives of the Afghan people are like.
		Dayna: Some of the Taliban were very kind to us, especially two of them–they treated us like sisters.
	www.adventistreview.org /2002-1525/story5-3.html (924 words)

	-- Beliefnet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		When the Taliban captured humanitarian relief workers Dayna Curry and Heather Mercer in August, religious and political leaders in the United States were aghast.
		But now that Curry and Mercer and the six other Shelter Now relief workers are safe, a different story can be told.
		Although the two women say that most of their time was spent providing practical humanitarian care, Curry has conceded that about 20% of the Taliban's charges against them were valid.
	www.belief.net /frameset.asp?pageLoc=/story/93/story_9373_1.html&boardID=28938 (522 words)

	Double Jeopardy - Christianity Today Magazine
		Curry: It's about 10 months of training—and two months of that is an overseas outreach where you're implementing the things that you tried to acquire in the classroom.
		Curry: Within the Taliban there were some that were in it for the job; their hearts were not in it.
		Curry: I know particularly that we did not have that many people praying for us the day we were arrested.
	www.christianitytoday.com /ct/2002/008/1.26.html (4018 words)

	USATODAY.com - Aid workers taken on grand tour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Heather Mercer, right, and Dayna Curry are graduates of Baylor University in Texas.
		Heather Mercer, 24, of Vienna, Va., and Dayna Curry, 30, of suburban Nashville, were detained by the Taliban in Afghanistan for more than 3 months.
		All eight were freed Nov. 14; Mercer and Curry returned to the USA on Sunday.
	www.usatoday.com /news/washington/nov01/2001-11-27-workers.htm (503 words)

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