Two Episcopal Church missionaries in Port-au-Prince say that they feared for their lives during the Jan. 12 earthquake and in its aftermath that shook the Haitian capital.
When the magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit just before 5 p.m. local time, the Rev. Canon Oge Beauvoir and his wife Serrette were in their Port-au-Prince home, he told Nathan Brockman of Trinity Wall Street in a Jan. 15 telephone call.
“For the first time I was certain I faced death,” Beauvoir told Brockman. “I was certain we were going to die.”
Beauvoir, 53, is the dean of the Episcopal Diocese of Haiti’s seminary.
We have missionaries?
To the best of my understanding, TEC itself does not give any full-time support to any missionaries. Mission groups, e.g. dioceses, within TEC send and support missionaries.
The Diocese of Albany had a mission group in the “up country” in Haiti when the earthquake hit. (There is a long-term relationship there) None were hurt in any way. They were able to travel east into the Dominican Republic to link up with two other Albany mission teams who have been working in the DR. They all came home safely over the weekend.
It would be interesting for someone to do research aimed at finding all of the NGO “missions” working in Haiti, and to somehow measure their outcomes.