Video and photos from the memorial service for Christian singing star and international adoption advocate Derek Loux are now available online. Loux died at 37 on a Nebraska highway, the day before Christmas Eve, while heading home to his wife and ten children in Kansas City from a ministry conference in Colorado.
The memorial service for Christian singing star and international adoption advocate Derek Loux will be available as a DVD. Loux's death after a highway accident the day before Christmas Eve resounded around the world, and his funeral at the International House of Prayer in Kansas Memorial was webcast live on the IHOP site on January 2nd.
At least it was supposed to be.
We couldn't find the feed, and apparently many others who wanted to be a part of the goodbye to the minister, husband and father of ten (eight adopted) were also unable to view it There has been no information, photos or video readily available in the days since.
"Hope is more than just a word, it’s a state of being. It’s a firm belief that even if you don’t know how, even if you don’t know when, God will come through and better days are up ahead. Life sends rain… Hope dances in the puddles until the sun comes out again….. Holley Gerth
"(Hebrews 11:1) Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.
"Thank you to all our friends and family in the U.S., Poland, South Korea, Ukraine, Russia, Singapore, China, Australia, New Zealand, India, Israel, England, Scotland, Spain, Hawaii, the Marshall Islands and others from around the world who have expressed your love to our family through your most needed prayers, encouraging email/blog messages and through your gifts. We are humbled and blessed by your love!
"For those of you who had a hard time watching Derek’s Memorial Service online, it will be available soon on DVD. We will keep you posted, both on this blog and at our josiahfund.org website, when it is ready and available. You will also be able to download and print Derek’s Memorial Service brochure.
"God bless you and keep you close to His heart!
"In Jesus’ love,"Renee’, Telma, Teyolla, Keyolla, Leeann, Sophia, Michaela, Sana, Sasha, Ethan and Silas"
The memorial service for Christian singer and adoption advocate Derek Loux takes place today in Kansas City, Missouri and can be viewed online from 2 to 4:30 pm Central Standard Time.
Derek Loux died the day before Christmas Eve after an SUV accident in Nebraska while on his way home from a ministry conference in Colorado, where he'd been getting lessons on human trafficking and rescuing children from the sex trade. He was 37 and the father to ten children, eight of them adopted.
The funeral will take place at the International House of Prayer-Kansas City Forerunner School of Ministry Building at 12444 Grandview Road. Viewing of the body will be 10 am to noon, and the service from 2 to 4:30 pm.
On Wednesday morning December 23, 2009, 37 year old Derek R. Loux, a husband, father, brother and son, went home to be with the Lord after a fatal car accident in Nebraska. Derek, a faithful servant of the Lord, was husband to Renee Loux for 17 years and father to 10 children, Telma (19, has severe scoliosis), Teyolla and Keyolla (18 year old twins), Leeann (15), Sophia (12), Michaela (9), Sana (8), Sasha (7), Ethan (6) and Silas (3). Eight of their children are adopted – six of their girls are from the Marshall Islands and 3 special needs boys, two with down syndrome and one with spina bifida are from Ukraine.
Derek was part of the senior leadership team of the International House of Prayer of Kansas City and served in many areas on the Missions Base including helping pioneer the Forerunner Music Academy. Derek was also a worship leader and a frequent conference speaker. As a professional musician, singer, and songwriter, Derek recorded several CDs including Paper Religion and Fragrant Burning. Before joining IHOP-KC, he served as the director of IHOP-Indianapolis for four years. Derek’s life passion was adopting and restoring orphans; he pioneered the vision of the Orphan Justice Center (OJC) —a haven of restoration for rescued orphans.
A memorial service for Derek will be held on Saturday, January 2, 2010 at the IHOP-KC Forerunner School of Ministry Building – 12444 Grandview Road, Grandview, Missouri. Service times are as follows: Viewing – 10 am to Noon, Memorial Service 2 pm to 4:30 pm. (if you are out of town, you can view the memorial service online at www.ihop.org at 2pm central)
Late in the evening on December 22nd, Derek Loux and Jonathan Oliver began their trip back to Kansas City from Colorado after attending a training seminar on how to help children out of the sex slave industry. As Jonathan and Derek were passing through Nebraska in a snowstorm they hit a patch of black ice causing their vehicle to spin out of control, flipping several times. Jonathan and a witness of the accident immediately performed CPR on Derek while waiting for the ambulance. After receiving CPR at the scene Derek finally had a pulse but as they were transporting him to a larger hospital his heart rate dropped and he passed away.
Derek and Renee’s firstborn son, Josiah, also a special needs child, passed away when he was 2½ yrs old. Josiah’s life and death opened up a whole new world to Derek and Renee’ and their love for children with special needs. Their dream and desire is to buy over 44 acres on Blue Ridge Rd to build a “house of mercy” for 30 children and staff and a therapy center for the current and future special needs children. Renee and her children plan to fulfill Derek and Renee’s dream to make sure that all their efforts to help children will continue on even in his death. For more detailed information about the Josiah project and how you can partner with them go to www.josiahfund.org.
If you would like to assist the family at this tragic time you can do so by forwarding your tax deductible financial gift to:
Checks made payable to: “SCCF” In check memo line write: “IHOP Benevolence Fund” Mail checks to: IHOP-KC, 3535 E. Red Bridge Rd, Kansas City, MO 64137 Checks can also be brought to the IHOP-KC Business Office. 3535 E Red Bridge Rd. KCMO For credit card donations, call: 816-763-00200 x2250
Tracie writes: "I still don’t have words to even express the magnitude of the loss our family has suffered. There is still that wishing and hoping that it was all just a dream."
The website for the famly of Derek Loux has offered new information on the accident that led to the death of the Christian singer and adoption advocate on the day before Christmas Eve:
"Late in the evening on December 22, after attending a training seminar on how to save children out of the sex slave industry, Derek and his friend Jonathan (Oliver), began their return drive home from Colorado. They hit a patch of black ice as they drove through a Nebraska snowstorm (on Interstate 80 outside Cozad), causing their vehicle to spin out of control and flip several times.
"Derek was not driving the car and was sleeping in an almost completely reclined position. Derek was wearing his seatbelt, but when the car flipped, Derek was literally sucked out of his lap belt. Because he was reclined, his shoulder harness was not tight enough to hold him.
"Jonathan and a witness of the accident immediately performed CPR on Derek while waiting for the ambulance. Derek was given several different drugs to revive him and after an hour, he regained a pulse. The doctors told the Loux family that Derek had been without a pulse for over an hour and that while being transported to a larger trauma care hospital, his heart rate began to drop and he passed away."
Derek Loux was a missionary minister for the International House of Prayer in Kansas City, Missouri and incredibly influential in getting people to adopt special-needs children and hard-to-place orphans. He was 37 years old, married seventeen years to renee, and the father of ten childrebn-- eight of them adopted, several with special needs. His passing has been a blow to adoption advocates across the world.
His memorial can be seen live today from 2-4:30 pm CST at www.ihop.org
Christian singer and adoption advocate Derek Loux was not driving the SUV in the single-car accident that killed him the day before Christmas Eve. The latest reports say that Loux was a passenger in the Dodge Durango when it skidded out of control and slid off Interstate 80 around 4 a.m. Wednesday, about two miles east of the small Nebraska town of Cozad. The 28-year-old driver was taken to an area hospital after the crash. We don't know his condition.
State troopers say both men were wearing seatbelts.
Derek Loux, 37, was on his way back home to Grandview, Missouri, from a ministry conference in Colorado, where he went to learn how to minister to victims of human trafficking. Loux's passion was getting people to adopt special needs and underprivileged children. A minister with the International House of Prayer in Kansas City, Missouri, he preached around the world on the subject and he and his wife Renee were parents of eight adopted children, in addition to two girls of their own. Their firstborn son Josiah, died of spinal bifada and inspired Loux to begin The Josiah Fund.
Derek Loux, who was such an important part of our IHOP family for many years, is now in the presence of his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Early this morning as he was traveling home from Colorado, Derek was killed in an automobile accident when his car hit a patch of black ice. Derek had been in Colorado to receive more extensive training in how to minister to victims of human trafficking.
For years, this precious man of God has faithfully served his Lord and our Missions Base in so many areas, including helping pioneer the Forerunner Music Academy, where he served as director. Derek was part of the IHOP-KC senior leadership team, a worship leader in the House of Prayer, and a frequent IHOP-KC conference speaker. He has recorded professionally as a musician, singer and songwriter; including his albums Paper Religion and Fragrant Burning. Before joining IHOP-KC, he served as the director of IHOP-Indianapolis for four years.
Derek’s life passion was adopting and restoring orphans; he pioneered the vision of the Orphan Justice Center – a haven of restoration for rescued orphans. OJC recently become an official part of IHOP. His tireless voice for the weak and voiceless indelibly marked us all. How we will miss him.
Renee and the children will need so very much love and support, not only in these first weeks, but for many years. In the immediate, Pamela Stead will spearhead all practical care for the family. Please contact her (pamelastead@ihop.org) if you want to be involved in practical helps. We ask you to please give the Loux family (immediate and extended) privacy to grieve, and only go to the home if invited. There will be many ways to give – meals, childcare, home care, finances. More details will follow soon on how you can give to this precious family, as well as Memorial plans.
We do not grieve as those who have no hope, but oh how we grieve. For Renee, for children who have lost their earthly father, and for our family who has lost a marvelous comrade. Until that Day when He dries every tear…we mourn with the Loux family.
The stories are coming in and we're beginning to get a clearer picture of Derek Loux, the Christian singer, minister and adoption advocate who died after an SUV wreck in Nebraska the day before Christmas Eve.
Loux's death made the news because he'd released a couple of albums as a Contemporary Christian singer. Digging a bit deeper, we learned that he was an evangelizing minister who promoted adoption around the world, that he died while returning from a training session on how to minister to victims of human trafficking-- and that his death left ten children fatherless, only weeks after a family trip to Disneyland.
We'd asked you to send us information to fill in his back story, and now the life of Derek Loux is coming into focus, and questions, like why he started something called The Joshua Fund. Glenn E. Rice of The Kansas City Star tells us that "Derek Loux’s ministry was built on the foundation that there was always room at the family table for another child.
"In recent years, Loux and his wife, Renee, adopted a household of children that included five girls from the Marshall Islands and three boys with special needs from Ukraine. The couple already had two children."
Derek and Renee Loux moved to Kansas City a few years ago to work with the International House of Prayer (IHOP) ministry and help launch its music ministry, the Forerunner Music Academy. Before that, he was director of an IHOP ministry in Indianapolis.
"Loux was raised in Pennsylvania. After high school, he joined the Last Days Ministries in Texas. Part of his training included an internship in the Marshall Islands, where he met his wife. (The Loux family website says, 'Renee grew up on the mission field in the Pacific islands and Derek grew up in a traveling ministry with his family.') The couple married in 1992. Two years later, their first child, Josiah, was born with severe spina bifida. Josiah died two years later.
"To honor his memory, the couple created the Josiah Fund with a mission of rescuing, adopting and restoring needy and neglected children. The couple was raising money to purchase property for a group home and adopt more children.
"They also sought to inspire other couples to adopt children, particularly those with special needs. In recent years, about 20 IHOP families have adopted 60 children from throughout the United States and from other countries."
Kathleen emails:
"I was to meet Derek at the Indianapolis House of Prayer, the year prior he and his family moving to Kansas City.
"He was a Godly example of a true believer in watching him relate to his wife, children, sister and parents. His music and teaching opened my
"Heart more to God. My life was enriched by Derek. Thank you, Lord, for sharing Derek with us."
Word on Christmas Eve morning of the death of a young, charismatic Christian music star is news. The death of Christian music star Derek Loux is the American Christmas tragedy of the season.
Derek Loux was on his way home to Grandview, Missouri from a ministry conference in Colorado yesterday morning when the SUV he was in skidded out of control on black ice on a snowy Highway 80 near Cozad, Nebraska. He died from his injuries.
Loux was a pleasant enough singer who touched the Contemporary Christian charts a couple of years back with an album called Paper Religion. He worked the Christian evangelical industry as a director of and preacher for something called the International House of Prayer (yes, also known as IHOP) in Kansas City, Missouri. If the story stopped there it would be just another ironic chuckle from the 2009 Celebrity Death Reaper on the way to taking sportscaster George Michael-- but it doesn't stop there.
Derek Loux's IHOP ministry was focused on promoting the adoption of disadvantaged and special needs children. He started something called The Josiah Fund to raise money to build a group home for orphaned kids in hopes of encouraging fellow Christians to take them in. And he his wife Renee walked the walk. Their family includes ten children, eight adopted-- three with special needs.
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