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Haiti Earthquake: Missing Lynn University Student and Two Professors [Pics in URL] Florida College Hired Private Search Team to Find Its Missing Students By EMILY FRIEDMAN Jan. 14, 2010 One student and two professors from a Florida university mission group are missing in the chaos and rubble of Haiti's earthquake, despite the efforts of a private search team hired by the school to find its missing staff and students. L-R: Christine Gianacaci, Richard Bruno, Patrick Hartwick (trentonian.com/Lynn University) The private contractor was commissioned by Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla. So far, the contractor has located 11 members of the...

As the island mobilized to help Haiti, Interim Gov. Kenneth McClintock sent three military helicopters and two C-130 cargo airplanes from the Puerto Rico Air National Guard filled with emergency personnel and equipment to aid the neighboring Caribbean nation, which was devastated by a magnitude 7.0 earthquake Tuesday evening. “Since this morning I have been in contact with United Nations Special Envoy to Haiti Bill Clinton and Haitian Consul General in Miami Ralph Latourtude to put Puerto Rico at Haiti’s service,” McClintock said during a news conference to announce various collection centers where local residents can make donations of water,...

ELCA Members in Haiti Reported Safe Following Earthquake 10-012-MRC CHICAGO (ELCA) -- Members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) engaged in volunteer work and immersion experiences in Haiti are reported safe following a Jan. 12 earthquake that struck the southern part of the Caribbean nation. The Rev. Douglas A. Hill, Abiding Hope Lutheran Church, Littleton, Colo., and a group of 11 seminary students are in Jacmel, which is located about 40 miles from the earthquake epicenter. The group is safe and has shelter, food and water, but direct communication with the group is not possible at this time,...

NEW YORK (AP) -- A young American aid worker - trapped for about 10 hours under the rubble of her mission house that was destroyed in Haiti's earthquake - has been rescued by her husband. Frank Thorp told CBS's "The Early Show" by phone from Haiti on Wednesday that he drove 100 miles to Port-au-Prince once he learned of the quake, and dug for over an hour to free his wife, Jillian, and her co-worker Charles Dietsch. The two were trapped under about a foot of concrete, he said.

The Trinity United Methodist Church in Hackettstown, NJ is praying for 15 missing members who are in Haiti. The missionaries went to Haiti to deliver medical supplies to Grace’s Children Hospital in Port-au-Prince.