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Please keep the brothers and sisters from the Baptist churches that were arrested in Haiti in your prayers. In spite of some of the really salacious reporting that has been slung around, they really were not trying to "scoop up 100 kids".

They've been working on building an orphanage in the Dominican Republic for quite some time. They did have paperwork, but not all the paperwork they needed to take the children they had into DR. They weren't arrested on the spot, but rather were returning to Port-au-Prince to obtain the rest of the paperwork they had when arrested.

Legally, they are in a real mess. I do believe that they will eventually be exonrated of all wrong-doing, but in the meantime, they are in jail in Haiti and don't know whether they will be tried there, or will be returned to the states to be tried. Meanwhile, they're families at home are basically in the dark, as they haven't been able to speak by phone with their loved ones.

It's really a big mess and these folks were trying to meet a real need, not break laws or tear children away from loving homes.
 
There are some updates to this story which I'll post in Current Events.

As for updates for prayer for these folks, it looks as if 9 out of the 10 will be exonerated. Please pray for a quick resolution of this issue for them so that they can return home.

For the 10th, a woman by the name of Laura Silsby, well, it looks as if some chicks are coming home to roost for her. She apparently has quite a history of being a scoff-law.

Nonetheless, it still seems quite clear that they weren't engaged in child trafficking. Please pray that the truth will come out, that the innocent will be exonerated and the guilty will face fair justice.

But, most of all, continue to pray for the people of Haiti, some of whom are so desperate that they were willing to part with their children just to give them a better life and for the true orphans in Haiti that they would find homes and loving people to care for them.

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