LCMS World Mission Blog

Photo: Rev. Dr. Jorge Groh, regional director of Latin America and the Caribbean for LCMS World Mission

An LCMS assessment team crossed from the Dominican Republic into Haiti in the early hours of Jan. 22 and met with Evangelical Lutheran Church of Haiti (ELCH) President Rev. Marky Kessa at a local police station.

Team member Dr. Jorge Groh, LCMS World Mission regional director for Latin America, reported that as the group entered Port-au-Prince, “slowly we start to see the effects of the [earthquake] jolting.”

The team left the police station with Kessa and four other Haitian pastors and trekked toward Port-au-Prince. The team, coordinated by LCMS World Relief and Human Care and LCMS World Mission, tentatively plans to take medical supplies and tents requested by Kessa into devastated Port-au-Prince where thousands of homeless Haitians are living on curbsides.

Read more on the LCMS World Relief and Human Care Web site.