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On Saturday, a gang kidnapped 17 North American missionaries in Haiti as the party returned from an orphanage in a suburb of Port-au-Prince. Since then, the group, known as 400 Mawozo, has demanded a ransom of $17 million for the victims, who include five men, seven women, and five children. While many locals have been kidnapped in recent years as security on the country\u2019s roads has been increasingly threatened, this incident has drawn significant international attention.\nThis kidnapping comes roughly two months after US troops withdrew from Afghanistan. America\u2019s departure and the chaos that ensued led many expats, including aid workers and missionaries, to leave the country.\nAnna Hampton is the author of Facing Danger: A Guide Through Risk, which is based on her doctoral dissertation at Trinity Seminary in Newburg. She\u2019s been in full-time ministry for 28 years, more than 17 of those years in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkey and other parts of Central Asia and the Middle East. She and her family are now based in the US, but still doing work in Central Asia, so Anna Hampton is a pseudonym.\nHampton joined global media manager Morgan Lee and executive editor Ted Olsen to discuss how the Bible discusses risk, what has shaped Western Christians\u2019 perspectives on this issue, and how saviorism affects how we make these decisions.\nWhat is Quick to Listen? Read more.\nRate Quick to Listen on Apple Podcasts\nFollow the podcast on Twitter\nFollow this week's hosts on Twitter: Morgan Lee and Ted Olsen\nMusic by Sweeps\nQuick to Listen is produced Morgan Lee and Matt Linder\nThe transcript is edited by Faith Ndlovu\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices