handy
Member
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.
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.