Dan Irvine, director of Caribe-Atlantic area for Global Partners, has sent a report and video to update Wesleyans on the recovery efforts and emergency relief in Haiti:

As the world now knows, on Tuesday, January 12, at approximately 4:53 p.m., our lives and the course of the entire nation of Haiti were changed dramatically. An earthquake, measuring more than 7.0 on the Richter Scale and lasting for nearly a minute followed by frequent and powerful aftershocks, has decimated the capital city of Port-au-Prince and several other communities. As you have been seeing on your television screens, the loss of life is unprecedented. The devastation is reminiscent of scenes in European cities after World War II.

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