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.’”
Thank you for your thoughtful reply.
Im going to assume most missionaries are likely to be pro open borders too. That takes away even more of my give a damn what happens to them when they get eaten by the animals they would bring here.
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“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.
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.
Not THIS one...The Scripture reference says: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. 5:4,1-11I don't think this has happened yet.
...and then there is voodoo...
Suicide doesn’t help the cause,
indeed
yet
bush meat consists of...?
Missionary self esteem trumps common sense
180° away.
The fault lies within the Inquisition zealotry
Jesus Saves!
INDEED!!
After all, the Great Commission does NOT say:
"Go ye into ALL the world (except Haiti) and..."
Everything exists in the context of the politics, society and economics of its time. That context is the culmination up to that moment of millions of decisions that had been made from time immemorial before then. No individual event or action can legitimately be evaluated or criticized except in the context of the time the decision was made, or the event happened. If we stand in judgement from our vantage and from the prospective of our morality then we put ourselves in the role of God deciding what was right or wrong or moral when we can’t see the laws, rules, morality of those who made the actions. People today view Christopher Columbus, as an example, as some horrible monster. But had it not been for him and others like him we likely would be living in a vastly different and poorer world. In his time, he was a hero. And, indeed, until recent times his accomplishments were acknowledged as crucial...then, woke happened.
Did a lot of very bad stuff that hurt millions of people happen in the past? Definitely. But you don’t have to go very far to find the equivalent happening today. Just flip through the news.
And yet John, about whom Jesus said THIS:
Matthew 11:11 King James BibleVerily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
And yet John managed to get his head served up on a platter.
Did HE, also, 'commit suicide'?
Like Samson did?
How about that Steven fella that managed to get himself stoned to death?
“supra-church project and the sponsoring assembly that organized the visit to Haiti”
That’s not how the couple came to be in Haiti. They weren’t there as participants in a “church project” mini-vacay little mission trip. That was their permanent home.
One of my cousins has been on a foreign mission field since 1973, and I see him for a few days about every four years when they are on furlough in the US for medical checkups, etc. His kids and grandkids live overseas.
Same for many of my friends who were in seminary with me in the ‘60s.
Which is STILL with us!
(At least traces of it is found in the Religion Forum on FR!)
Heck, some of the Catholics who post there would like to do nasty things to their own pope to make him more in line with what a pope SHOULD be like!
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