ATLANTA (ABP) -- The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship is accepting applications for limited volunteer opportunities for groups and individuals to prepare a staging area for future service opportunities like cleanup and rebuilding in Haiti.

Prospective volunteers may sign up on the CBF website. Officials will match skills and resources with needs as they develop on-site.

The Fellowship's long-term-disaster-response plan includes working with ministry partners to provide medical services, access to clean water, spiritual formation and pastoral care. Efforts will also include work with children and orphanages, micro-enterprise development among women and construction of earthquake-resistant housing.

As of Feb. 5, more than $193,135 has been contributed to the Fellowship's Haiti-response effort. Also, Fellowship Baptists have sent more than 4.3 tons of medical supplies worth more than $153,000 to CBF partner North Stuart Baptist Church in Stuart, Fla., where the supplies are repackaged and sent to Haiti.

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