1) International Ministries (IM) is closely coordinating earthquake response activities with the Haitian Baptist Convention and the Christian University of Northern Haiti. IM partners in the north of Haiti are proviing medical care and relief supplies at the partially finished hospital at Quartier Morin as Haitians leave Port-au-Prince for safer locations.

2) On January 15, Dr. Steve James, IM missionary in Haiti, and a team of four began providing relief for the medical staff at Haiti Health Ministries Christianville Clinic.

3) Krity Engel, IM misionary in the Dominican Republic (DR), is creating medical response teams who are traveling from La Romana, DR to serve for one-week periods in Port-au-Prince.

4) IM missionary Madeline Flores-López and her Dominican partners are continuing to treat quake victims being brought to the Conreras Hospital in Santo Domingo.

Provide an overview of IM’s response to the earthquake by printing the PDF Haiti Information Flyer.

IM has released $65,000 from One Great Hour of Sharing funds in response to the needs in Haiti. Give toward ongoing earthquake recovery at: www.internationalmnistries.org/items/80 OR  mail checks to: International Ministries – Haiti Relief; P.O. Box 851;Valley Forge, PA 19482  OR  make checks payable to your American Baptist Church and write “Haiti Earthquake Relief” in the memo section. A new tax relief law allows contributors giving to this relief, until March 1, to take a tax deduction on 209 tax returns.