Missionaries return from Haiti

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) - A group of missionaries who were in Haiti as the quake struck, are back home in western New York.

The families and friends of these missionary workers are more than excited to have their loved ones home with them Monday morning.

It was an emotional homecoming Sunday for church volunteers who witnessed the devastation in Haiti first hand.

This was the fifth mission to Haiti for First Trinity Lutheran Church.

They spent much of their time helping an orphanage about 120 miles away from ground zero.

But their travels to the airport took them right through the demolished land.

Church missionary Jim Pyrak said, "We did not see any damage until we got maybe 30 miles out of Port-Au-Prince. There were tracks in the road, there were fallen houses, they were crushed in rubble, people living out in the streets."

A few more volunteers from the church are on their way home from Haiti.