Click here to read about how HRBC responded with medical supplies for our missionary contacts in Haiti.

Listed below are many of our ministry partners who are at work caring for the people of Haiti in the name of Jesus Christ.

Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Response - How You Can Help

In the aftermath of the devastating 7.0 earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship has launched its response, which will be largely coordinated through CBF field personnel Nancy and Steve James, who serve in the country and are traveling to Port-au-Prince to assess how CBF can respond.  

Both medical professionals, the Jameses are bringing emergency medical supplies with them and plan to establish a staging area from which the Fellowship’s response will be channeled.  Daniel Vestal, CBF Coordinator, encourages individuals to respond in four ways where you can help:

• First you can pray: Prayer requests will be updated regularly.  CBF is updating prayer requests from Haiti at:  http://www.thefellowship.info/Pray

• Second you can give: Your gift will go to earthquake relief. Give to CBF online at http://www.thefellowship.info. You can also give through HRBC, and we will send along your offering directly to the disaster relief efforts of both the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and the International Mission Board unless otherwise directed.

• Third, you can get involved: If you want to help directly with response efforts, please let CBF know your skills and experience.  CBF is building a disaster response team and an application is available at http://www.thefellowship.info/Disaster-Response-Application

• Fourth, you can stay connected: Read the latest news release, updates on the CBF blog, and connect through CBF's Haiti ministry network's Ning site: http://fellowshipportal.ning.com/group/haitipartnersforchrist.

You can also click here to view CBF Coordinator, Daniel Vestal's, message about the crisis in Haiti.

International Mission Board Response - How You Can Help

The International Mission Board is also very involved in the disaster relief efforts in Haiti.  You can follow the IMB link to see and read more about the IMB's response and ways you can personally be involved:  www.imb.org

Video message from IMB missionary in Haiti
Watch a video message from Mark Rutledge, IMB missionary to the Haitians, who traveled with a media team into Haiti following last week’s quake.  

IMB missionaries, Dominican Baptists provide aid, counseling to quake survivors
As Southern Baptist disaster relief officials were heading to Haiti Jan. 19 to assess needs, IMB missionaries in neighboring Dominican Republic were providing immediate relief supplies, medical aid and spiritual counseling to survivors of the earthquake that rocked Haiti the week before. “We have asked almost all of our IMB missionaries in the Dominican Republic to set the majority of their other work aside and focus on the Haiti response,” said Adam Hammond, the IMB’s strategy leader for Central America and the Caribbean.

Haitian congregation perseveres after loss of four church leaders
A few dozen families from Shiloh Baptist Church in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, are living under a tarp attached to what’s left of their church building. They lost their pastor and three other leaders in the Jan. 12 earthquake. Out of 2,000 members, they can account for only about 100 so far. “We don’t know where our future leaders will come from,” said one member. But those gathered under the tarp are holding services every day.

Read more on the death of a leading Haitian Baptist pastor in Port-au-Prince. 

Give to Haiti relief
Financial contributions for the Haiti relief efforts can be sent through the IMB’s Haiti Response Fund or through gobgr.org. As mentioned above, all contributions to HRBC will divide evenly between CBF and IMB.

Contributions to the IMB will go 100 percent toward relief efforts. Baptist Global Response (BGR) is a Southern Baptist relief and development organization working with other Southern Baptist entities to coordinate disaster relief efforts.

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Vast need for short-term volunteers helping Haiti
Southern Baptists interested in volunteering in the Haiti relief effort — in medical care or other ways — are urged to send an e-mail to haitiresponse@imb.org. Indicate your name and contact information, what skills you have and when you are available. Southern Baptists interested in donating supplies or offering other assistance also can send an e-mail to this address.

Pray
Ways to pray for Haiti
Find ways to pray for the people of Haiti and those who are helping provide relief and counseling:

• CompassionNet: Watch for daily prayer updates.

• Twitter: To watch for latest updates from Haiti follow @IMBconnecting.Use #haitiprayer for your updates and prayers.

Blog: Join those adding their prayers to the IMB Prayer Director blog.

Baptist World Alliance Response

Click on the following link to learn more about what Baptist World Aid, the relief and development arm of the Baptist World Alliance is doing in Haiti: www.bwanet.org

Virginia Baptist Mission Board Response

Click on the following link to learn more about what Virginia Baptists are doing to support disaster relief efforts:  www.vbmb.org

You can also assist in packaging meals for Haiti through the Virginia Baptist Mission Board.  Please click here for more details.