BOISE -- Nine of the 10 American missionaries arrested in Haiti are back in the United States.
Charisa Coulter arrived at the Boise Airport Saturday night.
Now, only Laura Silsby remains in a Haitian jail.
Coulter was released from Haiti last Monday and was staying in Miami.
Her father told us she needed some alone time there to readjust before returning to Idaho.
After more than six weeks away, Charisa Coulter felt overwhelmed at her airport homecoming.
There to greet her were the missionaries she was jailed with: Carla Thompson, Corrina Lankford, her daughter Nicole, Silas Thompson and Steve McMullin.
“It’s good to be reunited,” Coulter said. “They all look great. They have color and they look healthy.”
While the other nine settle back in to a normal life, Silsby sits behind foreign bars.
Her sister, Kim Barton, was at the airport Saturday.
In a statement, she said she's glad Coulter is home and asks that people pray for her sister. By her count, Laura has been in jail 43 nights.
Coulter talked about the last time she saw Silsby. “I told her I love her and that it's just a matter of time before she's here.”
Coulter’s father, Mel Coulter, addressed the crowd gathered for his daughter’s homecoming.
"Please, please, please continue to pray for Laura,” Mel Coulter said. “Even as we gather here in the freedom of this place, she doesn't know that freedom because she's still in a Haitian jail. We want to see the day when we're all united and together again and then we'll praise.”
The time for praise may be awhile away.
According to CNN, the judge recently learned of the group's alleged attempt to take children out of Haiti three days before the attempt that got the attention of the authorities.
Friday, the judge filed a new charge of organizing illegal travel. The missionaries were already facing kidnapping and criminal association charges.
Charisa said she doesn't know what went wrong.
"We are ten Christians who obeyed God's calling and we went to help the nation of Haiti and their children,” she said. “For reasons unknown to us, it did not go the way we planned. But we all realize God is in control and that this is what He wanted and it's hard to understand but there's so much going on and it's hard to see.”
Even though most of the missionaries are in the U.S., the charges against them have not been dropped.
The Haitian judge said he hopes to have his investigation completed this week.
There is no word on when Silsby may be released.
