HAITI IN SHOCK AFTER MASSIVE QUAKE
By Eron Henry
Within 24 hours of the earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12, Baptists were already making
preparations to fly into the Caribbean country.
Members of Hungarian Baptist Aid quickly mobilized and flew into the United States and linked
up with team members from North Carolina Baptist Men. The two groups together formed the team
of Baptist World Aid Rescue24, which does search and rescue for BWAid in response to natural
disasters. After long delays due to the difficulty of travel into the country, the first team finally arrived
in Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital, on January 15. They flew into the Dominican Republic and were
escorted across the border into Port-au-Prince by “blue helmets,” United Nations peacekeeping
soldiers.
The conditions they met on the ground were horrific. “The situation is terrible, I have never seen
anything like
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