Posted on 05/24/2024 10:13:08 AM PDT by Drew68
Missouri state Rep. Ben Baker said Friday that his “heart is broken in a thousand pieces” after his daughter and son-in-law were taken hostage then later killed by a gang in Haiti.
Natalie and Davy Lloyd were among a group of missionaries who were ambushed as they left a church on Thursday, the nonprofit Missions in Haiti Inc. wrote on Facebook.
A gang of “3 trucks full of guys” whisked the group away, the nonprofit, which is run by Davy’s parents, David and Alicia Lloyd, wrote in a frantic Facebook post calling for “urgent prayers.”
“Davy was taken to the house tied up and beat. The gang then took our trucks and loaded everything up they wanted and left. Another gang came after to see what was going on and if they could help, so they say. No one understood what they were doing, not sure what took place but one was shot and killed and now this gang went into full attack mode.”
Davy and Natalie tried to use an internet connection to call Davy’s parents, the nonprofit’s post continued. “So they are holed up in there, the gangs has shot all the windows out of the house and continue to shoot,” the post added. “Their lives are in danger. I have been trying all my contacts to get a police armored car there to evacuate them out to safety but can’t get anyone to do. I also am trying to negotiate with the gang so how much $ to stand down and let them leave and get to safety. PLEASE PRAY- Going to be a long night. The phones have all died I can’t get a hold of anybody for the past several hours now to know what was going on.”
However, a follow-up post three hours later said, “Davy and Natalie and Jude were shot and killed by the gang about 9 o’clock this evening.”
Baker wrote on Facebook that he had “never felt this kind of pain.”
Violence has reached fever pitch in Haiti in the weeks since a new prime minister was announced last month, and kidnappings of missionaries and other foreigners are extremely common.
But just two weeks ago, Missions in Haiti said they felt the situation was stabilizing as the U.S. military sent personnel and equipment, and a Kenya-led international force was slated to arrive later in May.
“It may be the worst is behind us now and better days ahead,” the group wrote on Facebook. “We are believing this is the case and Haiti is coming out of this dark time.”
Five days ago, the group said things had calmed down even further. “Gang activity still happening with looting and destruction, but much less then before,” they wrote. “...For the past 2 weeks we have watched US military planes fly over several times a day. They are flying in equipment and supplies for the international force that is coming. It is reported the first 200 troops from Kenya are to land this week. Some gangs are realizing their rule is about to come to an end. 3 gang guys that come to the bakery for bread a couple times a week, I asked them what their plans are. They said ‘run to the Dominican Republic when the fighting starts.’”
How even do they bring the bodies home for a decent burial?
I doubt if Haiti is your final destination. ;)
Missions in Haiti (click here)======
Newly married
Haitian missionary couple
Davy's father and mother created this missionary station a quarter of a century ago, that has prospered there. Doubtless Davy was born in Haiti, lived there long enough to have deep knowledge of the country, and returning there to carry on his Dad and Mom's Christian mission admnistration.
Time to deploy our Marine Corps Flamethrower Battalion to protect USA citizens in Haiti?
There is a place for strong principled unattached men to go and minister. I’d not favor sending women or children or men with dependents.
May they rest in peace. Precious in the eyes of God is the death of his saints.
What I don’t understand, and I certainly support missionaries, is recently many of them did flee….
Some having to be rescued by Rep Corey Mills
Why didn’t this couple try to leave
I admire people who are engaged in ministry work, if it’s real ministry work, and not liberal work (in other words, leftist work)
If people can go somewhere to spread the word of God, and bring help in the form of knowledge outside religion that can make people lives better, I’m all for that.
I have been going to a men’s religious group for the past several years, and the pastor who runs it spent 15 years out in the sticks in the Amazon basin in the 80s… I respect the hell out of that man and his family.
We hold our meetings once a month, and the month before last, he came in with his “artifacts“ Which involved a blow gun and things like that. Just to show it wasn’t for show, he blew up some balloons and put them on the far side of this hallway were using and was from the other side of the room and hit it. I was impressed. He also mentioned how he had been given a fine set of dental extraction equipment, even though he had never done anything like that before, and he said he pulls of teeth. People from villages all over came over to get their teeth, pulled, including some people who didn’t need their teeth pulled!
But I do think I agree with you in a sense, that someplace like Haiti is not someplace, you should go if you value your life.
That said, I suspect those people doing that kind of work say those are the kind of places you need to go most of all.
that your physical life is not in danger from the Satan, still the god of this world as seen in Haiti and in Gaza and in Mecca and in little Pootie's living room, for his utter hate for the herald of God's message that robs his lake of fire of a single victim.
When is the last time, MplSteve, that you knocked on every door in your neighborhood appealing for the respondent to hear about and accept the gift of eternal life and peace through being fully persuaded that Jesus exists, is alive, and freely gives it to anyone pleading Him? An unretractable gift that is attainable instantly upon total convincement of God's grace through His Redeeming Son?
Are you not afraid that some slave of Satan might be so offended by your proclamation that he/she/it might hurt you, maybe kill you for making this incredible invitation which is without cost to the hearer?
Davy and his new wife were going back to Haiti to live there as servants to the other inhabitants freely, honoring their own Savior.
In the point, I was trying to make, I think the analogy would be a scene from the movie Jjaws“.
There is a scene where all the people are down at the beach, and nobody is swimming. The mayor goes over to one of the elderly couples with their grandchildren And strongly suggest he needs them to go into the water to swim because nobody’s going to go swimming until somebody else goes swimming.
The look on their faces as they get up clearly shows they are somehow beholden to the mayor for something or other, so they reluctantly take their children into the shark infested water.
I hope this girl didn’t end up going down there to do ministry because she felt obligated to her father to do so. Granted, that is her business, but people like that in a place like Haiti…
The end of the Age of the Gentiles nations.
The pain is unimaginable and unceasing. I feel for both sets of parents, and I’m glad they’re Christians because they’ll need their faith to lean on for the rest of their days.
Their decision to go there was dumb, period. Everyone who they would have helped in the future now will not receive that help. It was irresponsible in that sense too.
Dumb is the overriding factor. God helps those who help themselves <— not a one-way street.
I doubt Jesus looks at it that way.
And FWIW...
>>The nonprofit Missions in Haiti Inc. is run by Davy’s parents, David and Alicia Lloyd.
(Post #53 by ProtectOurFreedom)<<
>>You have no concept of how missions work, and the hearts of missionaries. People who don’t get it don’t need to be spouting off; they’re embarrassing themselves.<<
>>As I said, you have no concept of missions. You don’t just decide where you’re going; you go when God leads you to go. And you don’t go where you have “a better chance of surviving”; you go where God leads you to go. Your have to have a different foundation in order to understand. Maybe some day you will; it’s not your fault.
(Posts #98 & #118 by MayflowerMadam Posts #98 & #118 by MayflowerMadam)<<
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Some of us who have acknowledged the meaning and purpose of all that God has given this young couple in their period of mortality, that through their death at the hands of totally depraved demons. their glorious reward might be blessed still together at the Bema Seat of Christ, to be seen forever by all the heavenly beings:
"For we that are in this tabernaclefleshly body do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothedwith a spiritual body upon, that mortalityphysical deth might be swallowed up of life. . . .A brief list of perceivers who have seen the central value of Davy and Natalie's commitment, but other (including the journalist and Drew68 the poster of the article seemed not to get):
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences" (1 Cor. 5:4,1-11)
MayflowerMadam
skr
Robert DeLong
ansel12
ZOOKER
JohnBovenmyer
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Paul R.
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Why not give this deceased missionary couple at least the honor of reviewing the ministry that they had dedicated their lives and their training for?:
MISSIONS IN HAITI INC.; Projects (click here)
Never forget that it was just such evangelical Protestants, the French Huguenots (1582) in Florida and Pilgrims at Plymouth in New England (1621) to save North America from their decadent, Haitian-like, superstitious, torturing, murdering heathen that had reigned over each other for millenia on a hand-to-mouth level, and to establish a Bible-based Christian liberty over the whole continent, many of the civilized missionaries and settlers dying in the process.
Selah.
It is obvious to the Bible student that Davy and Natalie Lloyd are now still alive, absent from their adult old bodies but now engaged in their never-ceasing uninterrupted everlasting existence, in the Presence of our Heavenly Father and His Son, in communion with the saints of the Church of The First-Born, rejoicing as we should for them, though momentarily sorrowing here with their parents who must suffer from their temporary absence for a time.
Amen. (Sorry if I have forgotten anyone in the address line)
THEY WENT THERE NOT INTENDING TO EVER COME BACK TO THE USA (except to periodically give a personal report to supporting churches and solicit funding)!
Didn't you get it? Davy's father and mother were the missionaries who founded this effort a quarter of a century ago. Davy and Natalie were going back after their missionary training to execute the purpose and meaning of their life direction for the Lord's work.
I am a preacher's kid. Thew first thing I did was to use the browser's search engine to see what "Missions In Haiti" was all about, and why they were there.
You didn't check this out, and apparently have labored under the wrong assumption that they had just gone there for a couple of weeks to burnish their "Christian" credentials, not as a life's work.
Duh.
Sorry to say this, but without your beginning explanation in Post #1 of the photo and the backstory on their participation of what happened and why, a lot of really ignorant preposterous comments wee issued, including yours.
Yes, even though one knows they’re in the arms of the Lord, it hurts to lose them in the here and now.
Your attitude is appalling and un worthy of being called a FReeper.
Kids who may not understand the danger are NOT “stupid”. The contempt which you are displaying to this family is disgusting.
You all are right on.
One goes where God calls them. I doubt they were unaware of the danger. Taking the gospel to where you are called is not a decision based on personal safety but on obedience to God.
And HE *WILL* deal with those who slaughtered them.
Jesus didn’t think it was a waste to die for us.
Please show me where God said to jeopardize your most precious gift, your life, to spread his word. You can't.
If you believe suicide is against God's will, then these people basically committed suicide.
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