A Southern Baptist Convention Disaster Relief Assessment Team, currently on-site in Haiti, will leave the country on Monday and meet Tuesday with Florida Baptist Convention leaders.
Cliff Satterwhite, director, Disaster Relief Group, SCBC, said today . . . MORE
South Carolina Baptist Disaster Relief expects to send the first wave of 10 medical personnel of its 250-member Medical Team to Haiti within a week, pending the report of a Southern Baptist Convention Disaster Relief assessment team currently on site in the devastated country . . .MORE
By Barbara Denman
March3, 2010
University of North Florida student Joseph Lentz has been to Haiti five times, leading Bible schools, playing games with children and doling out peanut butter sandwiches and bags of rice.
“All day long, I was either scooping up children or scooping up rice,” he said . . . . MORE
By Barbara Denman
Feb. 10, 2010
LEESBURG (FBC)—Florida Baptists’ unprecedented response to Haiti’s
devastating Jan. 12 earthquake and the reduction of the 2010
Cooperative Program budget by $1.65 million consumed much
of the business conducted at the Feb. 5 State Board of Missions meeting
at Lake Yale Baptist Conference Center.
In a report that outlined Florida’s leadership in the Southern Baptist
earthquake response, . . . . MORE
By Meredith Hays
Feb. 3, 2010
Jacksonville (FBC)—Standing before 40,000 pounds of rice destined for
Haiti, a team of Florida Baptists prayed for those who would
receive it, asking God’s blessing on their lives that they will come to know Jesus Christ as their redeemer.
“This is more than rice; it's hope,” said Craig Culbreth . . . . MORE
By Russ Rankin, Florida Baptist Convention
Feb. 9, 2010
Port-au-Prince, HAITI—Medical volunteers from Florida arrived in Haiti
on Feb. 3 and haven't stopped working since. There is just too much to do.
It has been nearly one month since the massive earthquake shook this
impoverished nation. Some estimates have placed the death-toll
as high . . . . MORE
By Barbara Denman
Feb. 9, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE (FBC)—Nearly a month after an earthquake ravaged the
Port-au-Prince region of Haiti leaving 200,000 dead, stories of anguish and hope are rising
from the rubble.
A weary, hungry and thirsty Daniel Cadichon arrived at the Confraternité
Missionaire Baptiste d’Haiti’s mission house in Port-au-Prince . . . .MORE
By Barbara Denman
Jan. 22, 2010
PORT-AU PRINCE (FBC)—Ten days after the Jan. 12 earthquake, Florida Baptist relief efforts in Haiti have expanded to five communities surrounding Port-au-Prince, as the devastated nation tries to recover.
Rice—the basic staple of the Haitian diet—is being distributed . . MORE
By Barbara Denman
Jan. 20, 2010
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (FBC)—Florida Baptists have opened a second ministry initiative – to Haitian orphans and refugees – following the catastrophic earthquake of Jan. 12.
Contingency plans were being developed Jan. 20 to house 100 . . . . MORE
By Barbara Denman
Jan 20, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (FBC)—A four-member Florida Baptist Convention
assessment team was awakened by the 6.1 magnitude temblor
that added to the agonies of Haitians this morning (Jan. 20).
Craig Culbreth, director of partnership missions, reported . . . MORE
$20 for 100 pounds of rice feeds family of four for ‘a long time’
By Barbara Denman
Jan. 20, 2010
STUTTGART, ARK (FBC)—Twenty dollars is all it takes to buy a 100-pound
bag of rice to feed a
family of four . . . MORE
Fritz Wilson, Disaster Relief Director of the Florida Baptist Convention
reported today that a two man team has arrived in Port-au-Prince.
Dennis Wilbanks and Joseph Gaston are the first . . . .MORE
By Barbara Denman
Jan. 18, 2010
Port-au-Prince(FBC)—“There is a desperation here among the Haitians
that they are not going to make it through this,” said Dennis Wilbanks after he arrived in Port-au-Prince
Sunday, Jan. 17.
“No one wants to sleep inside a building . . . .MORE
By Barbara Denman
Jan. 15, 2010
JACKSONVILLE (FBC)—Seven native Haitian missionaries serving as employees
of the Florida Baptist Convention have survived the earthquake
and are believed to be assessing damage within their churches and communities.
“These men have been trained in disaster relief . . . . MORE
The Miami Baptist Association is made up of more than 300 local congregations, and about 100 of these are Haitian churches.
We are very involved in the Haitian relief effort . . . . MORE
The Florida guest house, a building shaken by the devastating earthquake,
is a center of activity.
Teams of Southern Baptists call it home as they fan out to meet the
needs of the hurting of Haiti. God
is at work and Southern Baptists are joining Him . . . .MORE
By Mickey Noah
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (BP) – Six state Southern Baptist Disaster Relief
(SBDR) medical
teams are among the first Baptists to minister in Haiti since the deadly
earthquake first
hit the poor nation on Jan. 12 . . . . MORE
Kentucky and Mississippi medical teams completed their last full day
of work on Saturday. Sunday they
will make the return trip to Santo Domingo for a flight home . . .
. MORE
By Barbara Denman
Jan 26, 2010
HIALEAH, Fla. (BP)--The joint Southern Baptist response to the Jan.
12 Haiti
earthquake will launch in the coming week with four "strategically-selected"
medical teams . . . . MORE
February 6th, 2010 by Robert Reeves · Kentucky Baptist Convention
This is the sixth of several guest posts from the Kentucky Baptist Convention’s disaster relief team in Haiti. The 10-member medical team . . . . MORE