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Lifestyle/Technology | Christar's Nancy Stewart serves overseas missionaries from Houston | Susan Olasky

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For more than a decade Christar missionary and librarian Nancy Stewart, 50, served in the library at Murree Christian School in the Himalayan Mountains of Pakistan north of Islamabad. There, on the second floor of an old British church building that had been converted to a high school, she organized and computerized the library. When she wasn't doing library tasks, she tutored students and advised on the yearbook.

Twice during her 11-year tenure the school closed: once for four months after 9/11 and once for nearly two years after an August 2002 attack on the school by four masked gunmen left six dead and three wounded. (The school took refuge in Thailand during that period.)

Stewart was eager to return to Pakistan after the attacks, not wanting the extremists to succeed in their goal of closing down the school. She would still be in Pakistan today if she hadn't needed to come back to America to care for her ailing parents.