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Pastor’s Wife, Her Friend Go Missing in ‘Suspicious Disappearance,’ Oklahoma Police Say

Missing women Veronica Butler and Jilian Kelley (CBN News/OSBI Facebook)

Two women from Oklahoma have gone missing after the vehicle they were traveling in was found abandoned near a highway.

The Texas County Sheriff’s Office requested help from the public on March 30 when they declared the disappearance of 27-year-old Veronica Butler and 39-year-old Jilian Kelley, wife of Heath Kelley, an incoming minister at Willow Christian Church in Indianola, Nebraska.

In a Facebook post, the church wrote, “We believe in the power of prayer and we believe God will bring them home safely.”

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Officials with the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation have deemed the women’s disappearance “suspicious,” according to a Facebook post from the agency.

The pair left Hugoton, Kansas, on Saturday but never arrived at their planned destination, according to a report from The Kansas City Star. The sheriff’s office said they were “traveling together to pick up children.”

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According to descriptions of the two women, Kelley has brown hair and blue eyes and was last seen wearing light blue jeans and a long-sleeved shirt, while Butler, who is 5 feet, 4 inches tall, has red hair and green eyes and was seen wearing denim shorts and a short-sleeved blue shirt.

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