When missionaries arrive in areas hostile to Christianity, how safe are they? What happens when things really go wrong? Here's the chilling account of what happened to a missionary couple in Africa.

The village of Wa in northern Ghana is considered the largest village in Africa. It has around 30,000 people, yet it's one of the most forgotten places.

Debbie and Keith Jaggers spent 6 years as missionaries in southern Ghana. But have ministered in Wa since August, 2001. Many in this predominantly Muslim community practiced black magic. Yet, the Jaggers saw that Wa's small Christian community was in need of training. So they tried to settle-in quietly.

Keith: I was spat upon, on the main street of town, because I was a Christian but I was an American. We noticed that after September 11th, the people, instead of just watching us go by would stop and stare and we could feel their anger toward us.

The tensions increased and two watchmen were hired to guard the Jagger's home. Then, on October 4th two strange things happened. As Keith was fixing a screen door in their home, a nail flew out of the door and grazed his face, nearly hitting his eye. Later that day, Debbie was working in the kitchen when a heavy shelf, firmly secured to the wall…

Debbie: …flew off the wall and hit me on the head so hard it spun me around, and knocked me on the floor. And when I got up my head hurt so bad. I put my hand on my head, and there was blood where it had split my head and I had to have stitches.

The local doctor treated Debbie and asked her if the injury was an accident. She thought he was implying that Keith struck her. But he knew something the Jagger's didn't. A group of Muslim men had been in Wa for several days putting voodoo curses on the Jagger's home. When Keith and Debbie went to bed that night, they had no idea that five men were coming to kill them.

Debbie: At quarter to two we heard this banging on the window, and screaming 'armed robbers are coming, armed robbers are coming'. I could see two men running across our yard with hoods on.

Keith: They'd come over in a military style attack. They weren't sneaking around.

Keith and Debbie heard the hooded men beating one of their watchmen.

Debbie: So I went back into our bedroom to call the police, but it/the phone was dead.

Keith: It was a little like watching a movie. There's a sense of disbelief, this couldn't be happening.

Shannon: Did you think this was the end of your life?

Debbie: We both knew we were going to die. Just in the way they were coming. They were coming through the door with a battering ram. Everything was so intense. We knew there was a purpose for them coming. And we really believed we would die.

Keith: We immediately started to pray. We prayed God's protection on ourselves, on our property; we just prayed.

Once inside, the intruders went from room to room, yelling and ransacking the house. Debbie and Keith had hidden in the bathroom's shower stall. They were so overcome by fear they could hear each other's hearts beat.

Debbie: And then they got to that bathroom. He pushed the handle down and he opened it really slowly; and then he started to shut it and I thought 'Y'know they're not going to find us'. And then he stopped, reached around and looked behind the door, and he screamed, 'They're here!'

Shannon: In English?

Debbie: In English, in the house. Just before that we had been praying. I mean our knees were knocking, and I was praying, and I just knew 'that was it'. The Lord said to me 'Debbie, Psalm 91'. He said 'you've been with Me in that secret place, now you just stand in My shadow, because I'm here'.

The man ordered Keith and Debbie into the hallway.

Keith: When we stepped out of that bathroom into that hall we stepped into the presence and the power of God!

Debbie: The power and the glory of God fell so strong that you could feel the walls rattling! I couldn't stand up. Keith had to literally hold me up at one point. It was not from fear, because fear was gone. Later, Keith said, it wasn't the courage we had, it was the absence of fear. In the presence of God there was no fear.

The men demanded money. Keith had a one-hundred-dollar bill. He handed it over and said, "In the Name of Jesus."

Debbie: I noticed instantly that the two men, at the moment he said 'in Jesus Name', both their heads just went (she demonstrated their heads bowed down). I mean it was in sync, it was simultaneous. The power of God was so strong there, that they backed up from us-but they had the guns.

The 5 men went into the living room as Keith and Debbie stayed in the bedroom. The Jaggers waited an hour expecting the terror to continue. But nothing happened. Keith and Debbie heard the men leave the house and steal their car. The men never returned.

Keith: Psalm 91 has become part of our personality. It's just part of who we are.

Keith read some of Psalm 91: "Because he loves Me, says the Lord, I will rescue him, I will protect him, for he acknowledges My Name. He will call upon Me and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him; with long life I will satisfy him and show him My salvation."

Keith: And that's what keeps us going.