American missionary thought ‘the worst things’ after Haitian president’s assassination
International | July 14, 2021
Paul Ruiz never feared for his safety during mission trips to Haiti until the day the politically tumultuous Caribbean nation’s late President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated.
As he and a team of 16 other missionaries from California organized by Anchor 4 Haiti got ready to leave a small coastal town called Cabaret to return to the U.S. after a one-week mission on July 7, the country shut down following the assassination. His mind, he said, told him “the worst things” because he wasn’t sure when he would get back to California to be with his wife and young daughter.
The fear, however, was short-lived.
“I didn’t feel the effects of it until the day I knew we had to stay. That really hit me hard because my own mind began telling me the worst things too. … It’s crazy what you go through emotionally. And then eventually, I regathered my emotions and then God set me strong and I would be home,” Ruiz, a member of the Abundant Living Family Church in Rancho Cucamonga told The Christian Post on Monday….
(Excerpts from the Christian Post)