On Wednesday, March 3, Rev. Marky Kessa of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Haiti (ELCH) and Rev. Revenel Benoit of the Lutheran Church of Haiti (LCH) met together in Port-au-Prince with Rev. Glenn Merritt, director of Disaster Response for LCMS World Relief and Human Care to discuss cooperative and coordinated ways of responding to the ever increasing needs in Haiti following the devastating 7.2 earthquake of January 12th. The discussions focused on 4 primary areas including the urgency of providing adequate shelter and medical care as well as beginning clean-up & rebuilding while managing the large numbers of volunteers ready to stream into Haiti.
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