Q: When a country becomes politically unstable should Westerners leave?

We as a family with 4 young children believed that God called us to Sri Lanka where there was civil war. Because of that, we had a firm belief He would keep us safe. If not, then His plan for whatever did happen to us would be for our good. That said, we always used as a barometer what the State Dept. was recommending - if they would pull their people out, we would have also left. We also paid attention to curfew regulations and stayed away from distinct problem areas.

It is different if you are single or if you have a family. If you have children, then you need to consider leaving more strongly, especially since family at home (grandparents, etc.) will be very concerned for those children as well as yourselves as parents.

In the event of a quick evacuation, we always kept a list in our file cabinet of items we must take out of the country with us, well thought thru beforehand, so that it would be easy to pack suitcases and go at short notice.

Yes I would say so, because we have been given wisdom. Sometimes the Lord would keep one in a unstable situation like political upheaval because he has a work for you there. I would say Lord I will leave to go back but if you choose for me to stay a little while longer in this situation then please open the doors and give me peace in it.