“We’ve been going all these years — we’ve never had a problem there.”

Scotty Goldman said he’s heard those words many times from churches that are planning missions trips.

But not too long ago in one of those frequently visited countries, teams dialed his number a lot.

“We had some criminal activity on one of our teams — they were carjacked and all of their passports and phones were stolen,” said Goldman, director of the office of global missions at the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions.

Around the same time, several other teams also faced problems there, such as a medical emergency and an airport shutdown after a volcano eruption.

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This article was originally published at TheAlabamaBaptist.org.