The Rev. Timothy Stewart, president of the Progressive National Baptist Convention and native of Nassau, Bahamas. Courtesy photo The interview has been edited for length and clarity.

They were sent by plane to Nassau, where they are staying with 80 other people in a makeshift shelter at the Calvary Haitian Baptist Church, where their present is bleak and their future uncertain.

First Baptist Church Senior Pastor Ryan Tucker asked his congregation on Sunday for a love offering to fund a plane flight loaded with supplies bound for the Bahamas after the devastating impact ...