ShareThisHAITI UPDATE- 2-11-2010
Southern Baptist Disaster Relief is on the ground and functioning in Haiti! SBCDR has established an Incident Command, has numerous medical teams operating across the affected area and has started doing assessments of homes and chaplaincy work with those families. The conditions are still very harsh but SBCDR is beginning to help the Haitians look to their future, physically and spiritually.
Back home, Colorado Baptists are doing their part to assist in the recovery efforts as well:
From Colorado, Dolores Southern Baptist Church wrote the Baptist Global Response office to say they showed slides of the devastation in Haiti and took up an offering of $1,000 for Haiti relief. As the church treasurer, Colleen Smith, was organizing the money, a 9-year-old boy ran up to her and said, "Wait until I go to the van. I want to help." Read more