Missionaries from Orange County returning from Haiti

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Most of the missionaries from Mission Viejo Christian Church will be coming back to Orange County soon, according to a pastor.Of the 11 missionaries who were volunteering at a Haitian orphanage when the temblor struck, 10 are coming home.

‘You could tell they were really torn,’ Pastor Mike Maiolo told City News Service. “They want to stay and help, but what it came down to is within a couple of days it’s anticipated that there will be a lot more hostility, intensity and confusion there.”

Also, Azusa Pacific College announced that a former student in Haiti at the time of the quake had been rescued from the bottom of an elevator shaft.

Daniel Woolley, a charity worker, was rescued from the flattened Montana Hotel after spending 65 hours in the rubble. He was flown to a hospital in Jackson, Fla.

Friends from the Azusa college told the San Gabriel Valley Tribune that they don’t know how seriously Woolley is hurt or when he might return to California.

--Shelby Grad