Haiti Disaster Relief Update

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Haiti Video Update

Alabama Baptists have been at work helping meet the needs of those devastated by the January 12 earthquake in Haiti. Many teams from Alabama have now been ministering in Jacmel, a city in Haiti that Alabama Baptists have adopted. Many more teams are going. State missionary and disaster relief strategist, Mel Johnson, and Alabama WMU executive director Candace McIntosh have recently returned from Haiti and share their thoughts in this video.

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Haiti Missions Projects are Posted

updated April 23, 2010

The Global Missions Office has posted several projects for Alabama Baptists to get involved in the Haiti relief effort. Opportunities from Alabama Baptists to serve in a variety of areas, including: construction, prayer walking, medical, water purification, women's and children's ministries, and evangelism. As assessments continue to be made, more projects will be posted. View the projects and project schedule here. Donations to help in the relief effort are still being accepted. To volunteer for a specific job, contact Ministry Assistant Angie Williams, awilliams@alsbom.org, or 1-800-264-1225, ext. 373.

Alabama Baptists plan to adopt Jacmel area in Haiti
updated April 8, 2010
Mel Johnson, state missionary and disaster relief strategist, has returned from Haiti and is working out details of Alabama Baptists’ long-term role in Haiti. The plan is to adopt the area of Jacmel, which is about two-and-a-half hours from Port-au-Prince. This partnership provides a need for a variety of missions opportunities in Jacmel in the coming weeks and months. Trained volunteers will be called up to go, and individuals and churches interested in organizing teams can be trained for their specific assignments, too. Disaster Relief

The Office of Global Missions is preparing to post projects that will include various ministries such as:

• Medical

• Water Purification/Well Repair

• Chaplaincy

• Demolition

• Construction

• Prayer Walking

• Evangelism

• Food Distribution

Specific details about ministry opportunities including team size, travel arrangements and information, and other related information will be made available by April 23. Please refer back to this site for details of how you and your church can be involved.

Email State Missionary, Mel Johnson, mjohnson@alsbom.org, with any questions.

Alabama Baptists send 8,300 Buckets of Hope to Haiti

updated March 23, 2010

Alabama Baptists responded to the call to provide Buckets of Hope for Haiti with “a flood of buckets,” according to Mel Johnson, disaster relief strategist for the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions. 8,300 buckets were collected from points across the state. Those buckets will provide approximately 250,000 meals for Haitians devastated by earthquake on January 12. 132,000 buckets total were collected by Southern Baptists across the nation. Each bucket is covered with a label in English, Creole and French that tells Haitians that the buckets are a “gift of love from Southern Baptists.” The buckets are now waiting at shipping points in Shreveport, La., and Jacksonville, Fla., the 132,000 buckets will be sent in staggered shipments over several months.

Highlights from the ministry in Haiti:

• Plans firm up for Alabama Baptists to adopt Jacmel area in Haiti (The Alabama Baptist)

• Alabama Baptists Donate 8,300 Buckets of Hope for quake victims in Haiti (The Alabama Baptist)

• First Alabama Baptist Teams Return, More Headed Out (The Alabama Baptist)

• 40,000 Haitians Profess Faith in Christ (The Alabama Baptist)

• Voodoo Priest's Son Leads Haitians to Christ (The Alabama Baptist)

• 132,000 'Buckets of Hope' collected for Haiti (North American Mission Board)