My daughter, Beth, was in band at Shawnee Mission West High School with Kelsey Smith, the 18 year-old girl apparently abducted from a Target parking lot here in Overland Park on Saturday night. The band has a very active parents' organization called Band Aides West. Within 12 hours of Kelsey's disappearance, Band Aids was taking the lead to organize the search and support the family. Band Aids asked my wife, Laura, to go to the Smith home yesterday and take a shift answering the phone. After arriving there, Laura became aware of a need for a web site about Kelsey that could handle the load coming from national news exposure, including Greta Van Susteren and Nancy Grace, as well as extensive coverage from the local media.
Through the intense efforts of Brian, Leo, and Chuck http://www.findkelsey.com/ (see mirror of original HTML site) went live yesterday around 5 pm. Glenn Kelly and Vine Hosting are providing hosting at no charge. Glenn even missed part of his daughter's second birthday party to help set up the site on multiple servers to handle the load.
The site is linked from the home page of the Kansas City Star, the story about Kelsey on Fox News, and many other sites. It is also on flyers being posted all over town. The site is now averaging 2.6+ page views per second during waking hours.
Please stop what you are doing right now and pray for Kelsey, for her family, for the police, and for all of the volunteers who are supporting them and helping search.
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This is the blog of the IT and Web teams at The United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas. Caution! The opinions expressed here are our own and not those of the church.
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3 comments:
Clif,
I am glad your guys were able to help with this site. It is just horrible to think about what may have happened to this young lady. Here in KC, we tend to think we are sheltered but there really is danger here just like everywhere else. My brother-in-law is an OP police officer and I know they are spending lots of man hours on this case. Hopefully, Kelsey is alright and will be returned safely. All we can do is pray and hold out hope.
Mike
God Bless you all, and you all tried your best, with loving and worried hearts. All we can do now is pray for her family, and pray, and act, to prevent abuse and assault, in any form. We as a society have to crack down on offenders, and give more love and support to all parents, so that killers stop being made. God bless Kelsey's loving mom, dad, and family.
This story is so sad. You can leave a memorial message or flowers online at:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Smith&GSfn=Kelsey&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=19798833&
Janine
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