I was praying for Bob and his family and I wanted to share some thoughts that came to me with you, which I'm sure you've already thought about.
I can't think of a single person in the bible who was doing God's work that didn't get a lot of grousing from the piously-wrong members of the groups they were working with. Moses saved them from slavery, and they complained all the time, then built an idot. Noah tried to keep them out of the high water and they laughed at him. Christ was called a heretic by many. The early church was divided between the Peter crowd and the Paul crowd.
The good news is - God always took care of the people who were doing His will instead of following the traditions of men.
Somewhere out there, there is a church that is praying for a man that will take the youth to New Mexico.