Pastor Mark in Port au Prince. Photo by Mars Hill Bellevue's Thomas Hurst USA Today interviewed Pastor Mark shortly after landing back in the States from his trip to Haiti. The interview covers the state of the churches, the importance of churches in Haiti, as well as a harrowing account of when the team came face to face with the sex trade.

Driscoll and James MacDonald of Harvest Bible Chapel in Chicago raced down to Haiti to assess the damages to the church infra-structure and launch a drive to rebuild places of worship, churcheshelpingchurches.org.

Faith groups offer the fundamental social network for education, welfare and health in a nation with virtually no government -- and that was true before the quake.

Driscoll's reports on quake deaths of church choirs, pastors who have lost families flocks and buildings included two particularly chilling experiences, posted to his PastorMark Twitter page and Facebook accounts.

Driscoll described those experiences to me in his first interview back in the states last night.

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