The group of 12 included several children. They walked 10 miles through the night. Later that day, they were on a Coast Guard flight to Florida.
For days, the missionaries prayed that God would reveal the right moment for their escape. Twice when they planned to flee, God told them to wait. But during the night last Wednesday, the group of 12 missionaries who had been held hostage for two months in Haiti put on their shoes and packed water in their clothes. “They found a way to open the door that was closed and blocked, filed silently to the path that they had chosen to follow and quickly left the place that they were held, despite the fact that numerous guards were close by,” Weston Showalter, the spokesman for Christian Aid Ministries, said on Monday, recounting the story for the first time at a press briefing. They used a mountain as a landmark, and followed the light of the moon and “the sure guidance of the stars,” he said.
