http://magazine.biola.edu/article/15-spring/biola-grieves-death-of-student-on-mission-trip/
Hasiet Joy Negash spent her final days on earth living out a dream. Alongside a team from Biola’s Student Missionary Union, Negash traveled to India during the first two weeks of 2015 to share the good news of Jesus Christ. She played and fished with orphaned children. She washed the feet of untouchables. She gave a gospel message in a town where the mayor, a member of parliament and hundreds of teachers were present. Then, on Jan. 15, the vibrant 19-year-old Biola student collapsed after complaining of asthma-related breathing difficulties. She was taken to a local hospital, where doctors were unable to revive her.
“The only thing my sister ever cared about was doing God’s will,” her brother, Hosana, said at a campus memorial service on Feb. 5. “She always wanted to spread the gospel in a foreign country, and when the opportunity arose, there was no changing her mind. The trip to India was all she ever talked about from the day she learned about the trip to the day she left.”
Negash’s death — the first ever to occur on a Biola mission trip — brought an outpouring of emotion on the university’s campus, where she was a familiar and friendly face.