She had been housesitting for her newlywed friends over the holidays and was just about to pick them up from the airport. But then the news came. There would be no happy car ride home recounting the details of their recent trip. Arash and Pouneh’s flight never left Iran. It was Friday, January 10, and this was just one of the many stories of disbelief, shock and sorrow shared with with Rick Mast, the Christian Reformed campus minister stationed in the Computing Science Department at the University of Alberta. Most of the faculty, students and alumni gathered there had never met him before. In the routine work of running labs, processing data, writing code, attending conferences and submitting papers, there wasn’t usually a reason to check in with a campus minister.