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.
“I am a preacher’s kid.”
Me, too. About half of my life in the parsonage we had missionaries living with us for short periods. They had to be in the states for various reasons — medical, deputation for support, etc. Some knew that when they returned, their lives would be in danger — but they returned anyhow.
A young single girl we knew went to a Muslim country where Christians were murdered often. When her parents didn’t hear from her for lengths of time, they understood that she may already be waiting for them in Heaven.