(WHAS11) - The only insight Claudia McBroom has about her husband Jerry's time in Haiti are the email updates and pictures he sends her.
One picture of a woman keeping the faith, reading her Bible.
And another, which illustrates the grim reality of the perils the earthquake victims face. A premature baby born into a devastated country where medical care is limited and insufficient.
"I just feel sorry for the mom, to have that baby there and not having a hospital to take the baby to," Claudia McBroom said.
But Jerry is there lending his support. He left Friday after the earthquake with Edge Outreach. It's a ministry that installs water purification systems. Jerry and his team are traveling with the Salvation Army.
"I'm really proud of him. When he said that he was going, I said, 'yeah, you gotta go. This is a privilege," Claudia said.
Her husband does missionary work regularly, but she said that doesn't keep her from worrying.
"We were watching CNN and the footage or everyone getting wild and looting and you know violence, widespread there," she said.
It's the same violence that Go Ministries pastor Wilbert Romain encountered when he left the Dominican Republic to find his son Calvin in Saint Marc, Haiti after the earthquake. First, he found the boy's aunt.
"When she start crying, in my heart, I said, wow, maybe Calvin has died," Romain said.
But when the earthquake hit, his son, who was playing on a roof with his cousins, jumped off of the roof onto the ground and ran into the street. Romain said he found him later, unharmed with a group of children.
"When I heard that I raise my arm and said glory to God," Romain said.
He said he haggled his way back to the Dominican Republic to safety and was reunited with his family.
Jerry won't return to Louisville until the end of the month. With limited communication all Claudia said all she can do is pray for him and know he'll come back a better missionary for it.
"Just being in the middle of all that happening. It's eye opening. It's eyeopening," Claudia said. "I think he'll be a changed man."
