CALVIN: MISSIONARIES
NARROWLY MISSING A TERROR
ATTACK OVERSEAS ARE RETURNING.
LAURIE: AND THEY'RE GETTING
A VERY WARM WELCOME.
VICTOR HAS THE STORY FROM
PEMBROKE TIMES.
REPORTER: THE GROUP HAPPY TO
BE HOME SAFE AND SOUND BUT ARE
GRATEFUL FOR THEIR TIME AND
CALLING IT AN AMAZING
EXPERIENCE WHERE NOTHING WENT
AS PLANNED DESPITE AN OBVIOUS
TRAGEDY.
WITH SIGNS AND BALLOONS IN
HAND, FRIENDS AND FAMILY OF THE
15 MISSIONARIES FROM SOUTH
FLORIDA COULDN'T WAIT TO SEE
THEIR LOVED ONES RETURN FROM
THE WEST AFRICAN COUNTRY OF
BERKINO FOSSO.
WE WENT THERE TO HELP THEM
AND THEY ACTUALLY WERE HELPING
US.
THEIR TRIP WAS CUT SHORT
BECAUSE OF THE TERRORIST
ATTACKS THAT TOOK THE LIVES OF
30 PEOPLE INCLUDING THEIR
MISSIONARY PARTNER, MIKE
RITTERING OF COOPER CITY.
THEY ENJOYED MIKE AND SEEING
THEM SMILE AND PLAY AROUND WITH
THE KIDS.
IT WAS CONTAGIOUS SEEING THE
LOVE JESUS HAD FOR THE KIDS
THROUGH HIM.
REPORTER: THIS GROUP FROM
WEST PINES COMMUNITY CHURCH WAS
ABOUT TO LAND IN BERKINA WHEN
THE PILOT GOT WORD OF THE
ATTACKS AND CHANGED COURSE.
SUDDENLY THEY PUNCH IT AND
WE'RE AT LIKE 1500 FEET BECAUSE
I'M LOOKING AT THE THING MAKING
SURE WE'RE GOING TO GET TO THE
GROUND.
WE'RE AT 1500 FEET.
ALL THE LIGHTS GO OUT IN THE
AIRPLANE AND WE TAKE BACK OFF.
STILL THEY WOULD EVENTUALLY
MAKE IT BACK TO BERKINO FOSSO.
WHEN WE GOT THERE AND MIKE
WAS NOT THERE TO PICK US UP, WE
HAD NOBODY ELSE.
WE HAD NO OTHER CONTACT TO
WHERE WE WOULD EVEN GO AND THE
LOVE THAT THE PEOPLE HAVE FOR
MIKE AND AMY THERE WAS SHOWN IN
THE FACT PEOPLE WERE COMING OUT
OF THE WOODWORK TO COME AND
HELP US.
REPORTER: THERE MISSION
WOULD GO ON.
I CAN'T SAY I WANT ANOTHER
TRIP THAT WAY, BUT GOD HAD HIS
WAYS AND HE USED SO MANY PEOPLE
IN THE EQUATION.
REPORTER: THIS GROUP WAS
INCREDIBLY POSITIVE.
MANY SAY THEY WANT TO GO BACK
AND THE FIRST QUESTION FROM THE
CROWD TONIGHT WAS HOW CAN WE
