(This information updated Wednesday, May 19, 2010)

South Carolina Disaster Relief pointing Haiti mission teams to NAMB

Local churches interested in sending missions teams to Haiti should contact the North American Mission Board (NAMB), especially regarding summer work with children and adults.

Cliff Satterwhite, director, Disaster Relief Group, SCBC, said missions teams will now be going as overall Disaster Relief work begins to shift its response from emergency medical missions to demolition and ministry teams.

“I would still caution churches about sending teenagers and young people to Haiti,” Satterwhite said. “I believe college students and adults can go there easily, but there remains that sense of a security problem.”

Satterwhite said there is no truth to the rumor that the Buckets of Hope, collected by Baptist churches for Haiti relief, are not going to be delivered as anticipated.

“More than 120,000 of the buckets were collected throughout the SBC,” Satterwhite said. “Due to issues at the Haitian border those buckets will enter the country in incremental shipments. The first 20,000 have been delivered. We’ve actually been told that incremental shipments will be more of a blessing to the Haitian people simply because overall aid will diminish during the rainy season. The buckets can fill that gap.”

There are other ways South Carolina churches can respond to the Haiti crisis:

• Please visit the North American Mission Board Web site at www.namb.net to contact NAMB regarding local church missions and ministry teams to Haiti.
• Also, at the NAMB Web site, please visit the Disaster Relief page. There, Baptists can find a link to a virtual prayer walk. Readers can also find video and statistical updates on Disaster Relief response.
• Visit the Baptist Global Response Web site at www.gobrg.org, where a bulletin insert can be downloaded from the Home Page.
• Follow reports Disaster Relief updates through the SCBC Web site, and include Haiti in regular church prayer ministry. 
• Donations may be mailed to South Carolina Baptist Convention, Disaster Relief Fund, 190 Stoneridge Drive, Columbia, SC 29210. Donations may be designated for Haiti, and 100 percent of funds will be used in Haiti relief. 

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