Strategically-selected medical teams to lead Haiti response

By Barbara Denman, Baptist Press

Southern Baptist missionaries work at the Good Samaritan Clinic in Jimani Dominican Republic to treat Haitian earthquake victimsHIALEAH, Fla. (BP) – The joint Southern Baptist response to the Jan. 12 Haiti earthquake will launch in the coming week with four “strategically-selected” medical teams, leaders of the Southern Baptist Disaster Relief Network decided Jan. 26 at the Florida Urban Impact Center in Hialeah, Fla.

Plans to respond to Haiti’s urgent, intermediate and long-term needs were addressed at the meeting by assessment teams that had just returned from the quake-ravaged nation along with representatives from the Florida Baptist Convention, North American Mission Board, International Mission Board, Baptist Global Response and other Southern Baptist disaster relief representatives.