GREENSBORO, N.C. - Two local Salvation Army workers narrowly avoided being caught up in post-earthquake destruction in Haiti.

Jake Richmond and Shannon Rogers returned to Greensboro on Saturday after a missions trip to the poor island nation. They are keeping in touch with people they connected with in Haiti using e-mail and Facebook.

"I was overwhelmed," said Rogers on Wednesday. "That was one of my first thoughts. It was like a pressing weight that I wasn't there -- like I would love to be there for disaster relief -- but that God protected us and kept us safe is incredible."

Richmond and Rogers had gone to Haiti earlier this month to work in and around the capital of Port Au Prince.


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