- [Chuck] As Venezuela'seconomy has plummeted,

some neighboring countriesare feeling the pain as well.

A sweetheart deal on petroleum

between Venezuela andHaiti ended last July,

which led to a 50% hikein the price of fuel.

Haitians took to the streets,

burning tires and blocking roads.

In the following months,

more than 70 protestors died in the riots.

Amid all this strife is arising tide of gang violence,

turning some parts ofHaiti into no-go zones,

even for the police.

This group of Christianmissionaries arrived in April

with computers and supplies

for a community centerthey're helping to build.

Shortly after leaving theairport in Port-au-Prince,

things went terribly wrong.

- About four hours, orthree and a half hours

outside of Port-au-Prince,

came upon a gang of peoplethat were stopping the traffic.

We were the first ones to hit it,

'cause we were the only ones there.

I've been there 100, 200 times.

I've never had any major problems,

so it's not a normal thing that happened.

This is a very rare thing

that we've never encountered before.

- [Chuck] What concernedthe missionaries most

was that many in the crowd were armed.

The truck was just totally swarmed

with men with guns and weapons,

and they were pounding on the windows,

trying to break all the windows to get in,

and then they were on the hood,

and then they were up on thetop trying to get our luggage.

There's one man standingthere, with his gun,

and he has two white linesdown his cheek and to his chin,

and it reminded me of voodoo.

- We came around a corner,and all of a sudden,

here the road's blocked off,

there's burning tires, there's debris,

there's, you know, this masscrowd of 100-120 people there,

well armed with guns,

and as we started approaching,

they started firingthese guns up in the air,

and, I'll be perfectly truthful,

at that moment I thought,"We're gonna die."

- [Chuck] Drew Pasler wasdriving the second vehicle

along with the team doctor, Doug Burbella.

- And as we were approaching,

he said, "Slow down a little bit."

So, I'm kind of cautiously approaching

as I'm watching these people

start pouring in fromthe sides of the road,

swarming the vehicle in front of me.

It was when I saw a riflecome around the side,

we thought that they weregonna execute everybody,

so we started reversing, andDoug's yelling, "Go, go, go!"

and as I'm going, that'swhen we started hearing

the guns fire that werebeing pointed at us.

- [Chuck] With their vehicledisabled by the gunfire,

bandits quickly overtook the truck.

- And I could see that therewas a motorcycle next to us,

and they had a machine gun,

and it was the windowblew out behind my head,

and a couple seconds after that,

I heard Doug yell, "I'm dying!

"I've been hit!"

- [Chuck] As the gangemptied both vehicles,

the situation continued to deteriorate.

- And that's when Ifirst looked back to see

his face covered in blood,

and I could see that hehad two visible wounds

and possibly more

just based on the amountof blood that I saw.

- [Chuck] Then the gunman put his rifle

up to Dr. Burbella's head.

But before he could pull the trigger,

something extraordinary happened.

- Maybe 30 seconds later,

after they'd taken my cell phone,

I could see that they hadmy bag out of the truck,

the man on a motorcycle just kind of,

voomp, just pulled outtanowhere in front of me,

and he looked at me andhe said, "It's okay.

"It's going to be okay."

And he said this, which was bizarre,

in perfect English with no accent.

Not even yelling, just kindof normal talking voice,

he just said something inCreole in two to three words,

and everybody around us that had the guns

just kind of stopped.

- Everything changed.

The whole demeanor of thecrowd just stood back.

I don't know what theysaw, but they stepped back,

and the tension was gone.

- [Chuck] But the crisis wasn't over.

Doug Burbella was slowlybleeding to death.

- Doug had so much blood on him,

we thought that he had been lung shot,

shot through the vitals,

but we couldn't do anything

because you physically couldn't move.

And during the course of the trip back,

Doug was fading in and out, in and out,

and at one point in time, he said,

"Look, I'm not gonna make it.

"Would somebody pleaserecord my last words?"

- Honey, I just wantyou to know I love you

and I love you, Michael.

Michael, I want you to be a pilot.

Don't ever give up that dream.

Live for the Lord.

- When Doug finally left Haiti

on the Life Flight aircraft,

they brought him here toDelray Medical Center,

in Delray Beach, Florida.

The doctors and surgeons whoworked on him since then,

removing the bullets

and bullet fragmentsfrom his neck and face,

say that the fact that he's still alive

is nothing short of a miracle.

- I didn't say much, but I justfelt I had to say something.

- [Chuck] Doug wants peopleto learn from his ordeal.

- I want people to know that

if God can carry me through this

with no loss of any function, really,

whatever problems you have,they're equally minuscule.

It's a miracle, and if God can do this

in this tragic of an event,

I think it's a shout-out to say,

hey, your problem isalso equally as small,

and God can carry you through it.

- [Chuck] From Delray Beach, Florida,

I'm Chuck Holton for CBN News.