January 12th, 2010. A devastating 7.0 earthquake rocked Haiti leaving over 100,000 people dead. It was the worst quake to hit the Caribbean island nation in over 200 years. If you Google the words "Christian," "Haiti" and "Help," you have more than 52 million choices.

Listen Up hosts a special forum discussion with various agencies. How are the millions of dollars Canadians have given to Haiti being put to work? We'll look at an overview of the effectiveness of the people and agencies entrusted with those huge donations.

Special thanks to all of our guests who took part in this week's forum discussion. For more on our guests and resources click here.

Join Listen Up in a life-changing trip to help rebuild Haiti. To get involved, call 1-403-474-9292

Twenty thousand relief kits are needed right away in response to the earthquake in Haiti. Click here to see how you can help.

Guests

Rick Cober Bauman
Executive Director, Mennonite Central Committee Ontario
http://ontario.mcc.org/

Franklin Pyles
President, The Christian and Missionary Alliance in Canada
http://cmalliance.ca/

Michael Weickert
Team leader for humanitarian and emergency affairs, World Vision Canada
www.worldvision.ca

Beth Jost-Reimer
Director of Communications, CBM Canada
www.cbmicanada.org/

Emily Kere
International Programs Officer, CBM Canada
www.cbmicanada.org/

Jacob Kramer
Director of Disaster Response, Christian Reformed World Relief Committee
www.crwrc.org

Mark Outerbridge
President & CEO, Mission Aviation Fellowship of Canada
www.mafc.org

Philip Maher
Manager of Communications, Christian Children's Fund of Canada
www.ccfcanada.ca

Reed Wortman
Development for Eastern Canada, Samaritan's Purse
www.samaritanspurse.ca

Rick Langstaff
Director, New Mercy Ministries/Flights of Hope

Jenny Cafiso
Director, Canadian Jesuits International
www.canadianjesuitsinternational.ca

James Eagles
President, Intercede International
www.intercedenow.ca 

Barry Slauenwhite
President, Compassion Canada
www.compassion.ca

Resources

LORNA'S WRAP

In an upcoming episode, we want to tackle the question of “why?” Why would God not have stopped the disaster in Haiti? Why must innocent people suffer? But for today, we wanted to tackle the question “what?” What do we do when the most important command of God is to love God and love people? Here’s what we do: we make ourselves useful for Haiti. Donate, pray, encourage aid agencies, and perhaps go. I’m leading a Samaritan’s Purse team of you, our viewers, to go and help rebuild shattered places like these they’ve filmed for us here. Call in at 403-474-9292 and start the paper work on going to help Haiti with Listen Up TV. We featured 14 charities in Haiti today – all need your help - pick a place to be useful to – they are on the website at www.Samaritanspurse.ca.

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