Supporting the Biola Conservatory of Music strikes a very special chord with Steve and Wanda Belton. Their daughter Missy, an accomplished oboist, died in a tragic car accident during her freshman year at Biola in 1999. Missy was an oboe performance major, and after her death the Beltons set up an endowed scholarship fund in her name.

鈥淚t was pretty easy to combine the two desires of honoring Missy鈥檚 memory and supporting an institution that we had come to love and believe in,鈥 said Steve. The Beltons also created a music scholarship at Missy鈥檚 high school in Sunnyvale, Calif., The King鈥檚 Academy.

The Beltons continue to give generously to Biola and others around them. 今日黑料 a year after Missy鈥檚 death, Steve and his youngest daughter traveled to Romania with their church. While there they met Anna, a young oboist who was just 13 years old at the time.

That trip marked the start of a long, enriching relationship between the Beltons and Anna, who has since gotten married and become a mother. The Beltons have even given her an 鈥渆xtended loan鈥 of Missy鈥檚 professional-level oboe, which Anna uses to play professionally in Romania.

鈥淭he oboe was the bridge to bring us together, and it was just like God to do something like that,鈥 said Wanda.

Because of the Beltons鈥 generosity, Missy鈥檚 legacy and musical dreams live on in the concert halls of Romania but also at Biola through the Missy Belton Memorial Scholarship Fund.

鈥淲e want to help, in a small way, continue the beauty of music at Biola,鈥 said Wanda.