Associated Baptist Press - African-American Baptist groups pledge $50 million for HaitiAmerica's five largest historically African-American Baptist organizations are cooperating to raise $50 million to help rebuild Haiti and provide aid to victims of a Jan. 12 earthquake that devastated the area surrounding the capital, Port-au-Prince.
Called the African-American Baptist Mission Collaboration, the joint effort marks the first time the groups representing 40,000 church congregations and 10 million Christians nationwide have worked together on such a large scale.
"The images coming from Haiti are devastating," T. DeWitt Smith Jr., president of the Progressive National Baptist Convention, said at a March 2 press conference in Chicago announcing the initiative. "Our vision for Haiti, however, is not limited to the images we've seen. We will work with Haitian partners to rebuild strong homes, churches, schools and clinics."
Smith was joined at the press conference by representatives from the Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mission Convention; the National Baptist Convention, USA; the National Missionary Baptist Convention of America; and the National Baptist Convention of America.
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