Source: Haitian 10 to be Released on Thursday
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/10/world/main6195535.shtml
The judge decided the Americans had no “criminal intentions” when they tried to take the children out of Haiti, according to Reuters.
[URL=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/11/world/main6197761.shtml] Judge: U.S. Baptists Should Go Free[/URL]
Judge Bernard Saint-Vil must now send his recommendation to the prosecutor, who may agree or object, but the judge has the final authority to decide whether they stay in custody or go free.
Saint-Vil said he was making his recommendation a day after questioning the Americans and hearing testimony from parents who said they willingly gave their children to the Baptist missionaries, believing they would educate and care for them.
“After listening to the families, I see the possibility that they can all be released,” Saint-Vil told The Associated Press. “I am recommending that all 10 Americans be released.”
So now that they’ll be released, it will be interesting to see what happens to Silsbury when she returns to the States. Seems to me that there will be someone waiting for her about the string of unpaid debts and other problems in her life.
"Our task today is to tell people — who no longer know what sin is...no longer see themselves as sinners, and no longer have room for these categories — that Christ died for sins of which they do not think they’re guilty." - David Wells
Well there was the court date that was postponed (about unpaid wages)
My take on the whole operation
As for Pastor Clint Hunter of Central Baptist Church. What were you thinking!? the church changed their website after the trip crashed and burned to distance themselves from the mission.
Archived (cached) page from Central Valley Baptist Church showing original planning for the Haitian trip
http://myweb.cableone.net/rmarler/Haitian%20Orphan%20Rescue%20Mission.ht…
I found it interesting because it demonstrates that the Haitian rescue plan was a church sponsored activity …. not an independent outreach of newlifechildrensrefuge.org (which had apparently not yet been granted 503b status)
Criminals? Absolutely NOT! Should they be released? Yes! Should they be kicked out of the country? In my view YES!
My take on the whole operation
- Haste makes waste. These guys threw this trip together without adequate planning or a vetted missions’ philosophy
- Good people? Yes! True Christians? Without a doubt!
- Laura Silsby was absolutely the wrong leader to start this ministry and lead this group.
- No doubt children in Haiti are suffering. But this whole idea that we would take children from parents (even with there permission) seems so antithetical to what God wants for families! In all of Paul’s missionary journeys or the Acts story of the church, you have nothing like this! Someone needs to do a reality check as to whether a mission like this matches any NT pattern (to me the answer is clearly NO!)
- The Silsby - Haitian 10 fiasco actually set back legitimate Haitian adoptions.
- My suggestion is that the next generation of missions’ textbooks should have a chapter on this episode! Theme: “What NOT to do!”
As for Pastor Clint Hunter of Central Baptist Church. What were you thinking!? the church changed their website after the trip crashed and burned to distance themselves from the mission.
Archived (cached) page from Central Valley Baptist Church showing original planning for the Haitian trip
http://myweb.cableone.net/rmarler/Haitian%20Orphan%20Rescue%20Mission.ht…
I found it interesting because it demonstrates that the Haitian rescue plan was a church sponsored activity …. not an independent outreach of newlifechildrensrefuge.org (which had apparently not yet been granted 503b status)
Criminals? Absolutely NOT! Should they be released? Yes! Should they be kicked out of the country? In my view YES!
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