The Rev. Sam Dixon speaks at the opening of the new UMCOR office in the Philippines in this 2009 file photo. Dixon died before he could be rescued from the rubble of a hotel in Haiti destroyed by a Jan. 12 earthquake. A UMNS photo courtesy of GBGM.
A UMNS Report
By Linda Bloom*
Updated Jan. 16, 2010 | 5:30 pm EST
The Rev. Sam Dixon came to Haiti to make life better for the poor and afflicted.
As the leader of the United Methodist Committee on Relief, Dixon traveled the world assisting Indonesians whose homes were washed away by the tsunami, Africans whose crops had withered under unrelenting drought and Americans needing shelter after tornadoes destroyed their neighborhoods.
So it came as a shock Jan. 16 when, after four days when hopes dimmed and were raised again with reports of his survival, church workers learned that Dixon died of injuries received after being buried in the rubble of a collapsed hotel following the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti. Read more…
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