COZAD, Neb. – A Kansas City organization is devastated this Christmas Eve. A music minister at a Grandview, Mo., house of prayer was killed Wednesday in a single-vehicle accident in Nebraska.
Derek Loux, 37, of Grandview, was killed when the Dodge Durango he was traveling in hit a spot of black ice near Cozad, Neb., and slid off of Interstate 80.
Loux worked at the
International House of Prayer (IHOP) in Grandview, serving on the leadership team, as the director of the
Forerunner Music Academy and speaking frequently at IHOP-KC conferences.
“Derek’s life passion was adopting and restoring orphans,” said a note sent to IHOP-KC members by the leadership team.
He had a real heart for adoption that started on a missions trip when he was 19. He formed the Orphan Justice Center and welcomed eight adopted children into his home. That’s in addition to his two biological children from his wife Renee.
Loux' passion for unloved children was so great that his friends couldn't help but share in it.
The accident happened about 4 a.m. Wednesday, about two miles east of the small Nebraska town of Cozad. The 28-year-old driver, a Lee’s Summit man, was taken to an area hospital after the crash. His condition was not available Thursday.
State troopers say both men were wearing their seat belts.
The letter sent from IHOP, which you can
read here, said Loux was on his way back from Colorado, where he went to learn how to minister to victims of human trafficking.
