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Haiti: Two Years Later

January 10th, 2012 · No Comments · Cooperative Program, Disaster Relief, Haiti

Thursday, January 12 marks the second anniversary of the earthquake that rocked the tiny island home of Haiti. The 7.0 magnitude earthquake left over a million people homeless and 230,000 dead as the violent vibrations crumbled a nation. Southern Baptist volunteers rushed to Haiti to provide medical care, clean water, food, and spiritual hope. Homes [...]

Haiti’s Shepherds Need Our Prayers

March 19th, 2010 · 1 Comment · All Posts, Disaster Relief, Haiti

I mentioned in the last post that I would be sharing video from the current Kentucky Baptist Disaster Relief mission to Haiti. Take a look at this powerful testimony from one of our Kentucky Baptist Disaster Relief chaplains who has been in Haiti this week as he shares about ministering to Haitian pastors.

Haiti’s Needs Continue to be Desperate

March 18th, 2010 · 1 Comment · All Posts, Disaster Relief, Haiti

It’s looking like Kentucky Baptists will send more than 12,000 Buckets of Hope to Haiti as part of the SBC-wide effort to provide practical aid to the people devastated by the Jan. 12 earthquake. The goal here in Kentucky was to collect 10,000 buckets so our people have been especially generous. The video on this [...]

Dateline Haiti: Survivors Will Not Be Forgotten

February 14th, 2010 · 2 Comments · All Posts, Haiti, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Series - Dateline Haiti

A fitting wrap-up of the Dateline Haiti series is this video dispatch just released from the International Mission Board from an interview of Butch Vernon, the chaplain of our 10-member Kentucky Baptist Convention Disaster Relief medical team that arrived home earlier this week. If you’ve been following the series, you know that Butch was the [...]

Dateline Haiti: God Revealed on Hectic Final Day

February 6th, 2010 · 2 Comments · All Posts, Haiti, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Series - Dateline Haiti

This is the sixth of several guest posts from the Kentucky Baptist Convention’s disaster relief team in Haiti. The 10-member medical team arrived in Port-au-Prince Monday and began ministering through a makeshift hospital on the edge of a tent city on Tuesday. In this post, Butch Vernon, pastor of Thoroughbred Community Church in Nicholasville and [...]

Dateline Haiti: A Day of Miracles

February 6th, 2010 · 1 Comment · All Posts, Haiti, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Series - Dateline Haiti

This is the fifth of several guest posts from the Kentucky Baptist Convention’s disaster relief team in Haiti. The 10-member medical team arrived in Port-au-Prince Monday and began ministering through a makeshift hospital on the edge of a tent city on Tuesday. In this post, Butch Vernon, pastor of Thoroughbred Community Church in Nicholasville and [...]

Dateline Haiti: “People Here Are Scared”

February 2nd, 2010 · 5 Comments · All Posts, Haiti, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Series - Dateline Haiti

This is the second of several guest posts from the Kentucky Baptist Convention’s disaster relief team in Haiti. The 10-member medical team arrived in Port-au-Prince Monday and began ministering through a makeshift hospital on the edge of a tent city today. In this post, Butch Vernon, pastor of Thoroughbred Community Church in Nicholasville and the [...]

Kentucky Medical Disaster Relief Team Now in Haiti

February 1st, 2010 · 1 Comment · All Posts, Haiti, Kentucky Baptist Convention, Series - Dateline Haiti, state conventions

Please be in prayer for a 10-member Kentucky Baptist Disaster Relief medical team that should be in Haiti by now if all is going as planned. The team left Louisville early Sunday morning and arrived in the Dominican Republic later that day. Today (Monday, Feb. 1), they were making an arduous nine-hour or more bus ride [...]

$20 Buys 100 Pounds of Rice in Haiti

January 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment · All Posts, Cooperative Program, Haiti, International missions, Kentucky Baptist Convention

The Southern Baptist disaster relief assessment team is back in Miami and meeting with the assessment team from the Florida Baptist Convention to formulate the long term Southern Baptist response to the Haiti earthquake disaster. I think we can anticipate recommendations that will keep Southern Baptists busy for the long haul but that may also [...]

Haiti Prayer Video Available for Download

January 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, Haiti, Kentucky Baptist Convention

A short video to encourage prayer and giving in the wake of the Haiti earthquake disaster is available for free download. The video was produced by the Florida Baptist Convention but they have given permission for us to tag it with information about how to give to support Haiti relief through Kentucky Baptist Disaster Relief. [...]