As a fight for power continues to unfold in Haiti after the Caribbean nation’s Prime Minister Ariel Henry announced he would resign amid escalating violence, an American missionary and several of her adopted children trapped there are pleading for prayers and help as they wait to be evacuated.
Through their Love A Neighbor ministry in collaboration with their sending church, Camano Chapel in Washington state, Ryan and Jill Dolan, along with their children, have worked as missionaries in Haiti since 2013.
In a statement posted on the ministry’s Facebook page, a family member revealed that Jill Dolan, along with four of the couple’s adopted children, got trapped as they tried to leave the country last week.
The family member stated that Ryan Dolan and his son were already in the U.S. when the unrest erupted in Haiti.
Jill Dolan told the New York Post in an interview that she has been in touch with the U.S. Embassy in Haiti, and she is worried “we will be caught in the middle of something really dangerous.” She added, “The gunfire never stops.”
Also trapped in Haiti is Rev. Steven Svendsen, the longtime pastor of Providence Reformed Baptist Church in Rice Lake, Wisconsin, who is in an unknown location in the country. He was hoping he could be evacuated by helicopter.
While Svendsen appears to have made the best of his situation, Jill Dolan has been renting hotel rooms and paying for meals for almost two weeks in Port–Au–Prince.