MORE GOOD SHEPHERDS. Missionary Davy Lloyd, who got killed with his wife, was talking on the phone with his father at the time. He had just suffered a beating by the Terre Noire gang, which tied him up and looted the mission. Then they drove away with three mission vehicles, equipment, and the week’s payroll.
The Missions in Haiti staff untied Davy. He then barricaded himself in his house with his wife and the mission’s Haitian director Jude Montis.
Suddenly another gang invaded while Davy called his father David, who started the mission 20+ years ago. David could hear the second gang breaking into the house, where he had raised Davy as a missionary. Later, a video showed the dead bodies of Davy, his wife Natalie, and stretched out on the floor. And the bodies of Davy and Jude had been burned.
Good shepherds lay down their lives for the sheep
The day before, the father David Lloyd had left the mission for a trip to Oklahoma. We had prayed for Haiti at the May 19 Global Day of Prayer, and Haiti’s international airport reopened. In hindsight some might say the couple should have left too, but they would have left their flock untended.
Afterwards, the founding missionary David Lloyd told the Miami Herald, “I’m just in total shock. I haven’t grieved. And I haven’t done anything else. I haven’t eaten. I can’t think.” Because they had felt safe from the gangs. As a former missionary to Haiti, I can empathize. Far from the unrest that often breaks out in the cities, mission compounds can assume a false security.
Natalie’s father, Missouri State Rep. Ben Baker, declined to comment until the bodies were “safe at the embassy.” But their souls have found safety in heaven. So pray that God raises up more shepherds. And gives them supernatural power to keep the wolves at bay. Also pray that the new interim prime minister, Garry Conille, will prove to be a good shepherd.
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