re: American Missionary taken hostage in Niger

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Sometimes I think the missionary work is just a write off to travel.

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This particular guy had been living in Niamey, Niger since 2012 working as a missionary pilot. I wouldn’t call that a write off to travel.

He has hope with Trump as President. If Kamala was in charge, she would be like, We cannot do anything at this time.

I think I read the title wrong.

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Fix shite in your own country before attempting to fix the rest of the world.
Sometimes I think the missionary work is just a write off to travel.

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Dude I don't think someone would just choose to go to Niger if they could go anywhere if they wanted to just write off travel

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Kevin Rideout, an American missionary and pilot with U.S.-based Serving in Mission (SIM), is the latest foreign national abducted in West Africa. According to multiple sources, Rideout, 48, was kidnapped on Oct. 21 in Niamey, the capital of Niger.

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Photo from 2014.

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Kevin and Krista Rideout are a young married couple with four small children who live in Niger as something called "helping missionaries." Kevin along with his brother, Ian, are airplane pilots for SIM, an international mission organization, which is headquartered in

Charlotte, N.C. The brothers fly mission personnel and equipment and supplies within Niger and across west Africa, helping to facilitate the work of numerous organizations in ne of the world's least developed countries.

While Krista's main ministry is being a mom to their four children, she hosts new missionaries ust arriving, teaches elementary school music, leads a team of secondary students and cares or orphanage boys a few days a week.

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The Nigers got him.

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groups affiliated with the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara

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Let Hegseth know and he'll move our orbiting magnifying glass accordingly.

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Niger please Fix your title

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We will not tolerate any Nigerdom

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Fix shite in your own country before attempting to fix the rest of the world.

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I hope you don’t take this the wrong way, but at least try to understand what this quote really means instead of bastardizing the hell out of it.

It’s not meant to be some hop scotch checklist to be completed sequentially. It speaks to the ripple effect each and every one of our own individual actions has on the rest of the world depending on whether or not we hold love, or hate, in our hearts. The fact that these guys are willing to go to a place like that to do the good work, when I am not, tells me that I have a lot of work to do in my own. We all do. Then, maybe someday, in some lifetime, guys won’t get kidnapped or killed in some shithole country while trying to help others who have been left behind.

Hope this helps.

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Pretty sure the US has had some spec ops teams in the region. We don't hear about 90% of the clandestine stuff they do.

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We had 1000+ boots on the ground there up until about a year ago.

There was a regime change in July 2023, and the new regime asked us to leave.

There was an incident in 2017 where 4 of our people were killed by Islamic terrorists.

I find it very irresponsible of this guy to attempt to raise his family of 4 girls in a shithole like that. What was he thinking?

If you want to risk your own life, fine, but don't involve your wife and daughters.

And now the lives of American troops may be put at risk trying to rescue him.

Side note: the last American that was kidnapped by Islamic terrorists there was released after 7 years in captivity.