Haiti Hurricane Relief

COLUMBUS, Miss. (WCBI) – Hurricane Matthew continues to leave a path of destruction tonight through the Caribbean Sea.

The high winds and water leveled some of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere.

Now, missionaries from North Mississippi are on the ground helping in the recovery.

Hispaniola Mountain Ministries had people in Haiti when the powerful category four storm lashed the poor country with winds of 140 miles per hour.

Now, the organization fears the huts and pieced together villages are destroyed, with few recovery resources.

Hurricane Mathew leaves the country of Haiti in sate of emergency.

“In Haiti, there is no one to help them. They are the poorest country and what little that they do have when something like this happens they then loose everything their lively hoods farms that have now been destroyed animals that they depended on for various things, now are gone,” Hispaniola Mountain Ministries Board of Directors member Ruthie Moss said.

Moss says the organization goes to Haiti several times a year. In fact, doctors and nurses from Calhoun County made a trip to early last week.

“When they knew that it was coming in the trip had been planned for a very long time so they decided just to go on in and just kind of sit on hold to see what needed to be done. So those Doctors are willing now to kind of change gears and just be ready and willing to just help in any way that they can.”

The circumstances for this trip are not ideal but the goal remains the same.

” The reason we go on any mission trip… to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ to those who have not heard. Our mission is to make disciple that make disciple. Not just go out and share the gospel, but we want to be a tool that the local missionaries can use to further their work that their doing. We’re interested in equipping the locals to reach their own people,”First Baptist Church of Columbus Education Minister Marcus Cochran said.

A small group of volunteers from Columbus left early Wednesday morning to try to make their way to Haiti. Another group will leave in December.
If you’d like to help the organization. You can visit their website at  www.youcaring.com/hmmrelief