She is the founder of Mirror Tree, a non-profit devoted to re-integrating refugees from the horrors of rape, genocide, civil wars and other means of trauma by funding educational research to improve their lives.
Luce was one of the five passengers heading to a Christian youth rally held by Teen Mania Ministries called Acquire the Fire, in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
They were on board an eight-seater Cessna 401 aircraft which went down about an hour and a half after takeoff on Friday, May 11, 2012, 9 miles (14 km) west of Chanute, Kansas.
The plane burst into flames when it crashed, killing the pilot, Luke Sheets, of Ephraim, Wisconsin; Stephen Luth, of Muscatine, Iowa; and Garrett Coble, of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
[4] Luce wrote Fields of Grace: Faith, Friendship, and the Day I Nearly Lost Everything (2013)[5] with The New York Times bestselling author Robin Gaby Fisher.