from The Patriot Ledger

Jack Riley returned from Haiti on Saturday, with fresh memories of the villagers he had met back in 2004 when his church first traveled to the impoverished country.

For five years, members of St. Agatha’s Church have been traveling to Haiti to give medical and humanitarian assistance to a rural mountain village in the outskirts of Port-au-Prince. Riley, the operations manager for the church, said his second trip gave him the opportunity to reconnect with people the parish now thinks of like family. (Read the full story here.)