Port-au-Prince, Haiti ? Two North Carolina missionaries kidnapped on their way to church in Haiti’s capital were freed Thursday after their families paid an undisclosed ransom, the FBI said.

Tom Barron, a minister at the nondenominational Mustard Seed church, and congregation member William Eugene Seastrum were driving early Sunday when assailants stopped their car and dragged them away. Both missionaries are from High Point, N.C.

Barron said in a phone interview that he and Seastrum were not harmed, but he declined to discuss his ordeal.

The captors had initially sought $500,000 but lowered the demand to $100,000 during negotiations with the FBI, said Leslie Dallemand, chief of the U.N. peacekeeping mission’s anti-kidnapping unit. Dallemand said the men were finally released for a ransom believed to be below $10,000.

Kidnappings, once relatively rare in Haiti, became an almost a daily occurrence after a bloody revolt toppled former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide in February 2004.