Bryan Clifton could see the faces.

The Harding University student association president traveled to Haiti three times on mission trips with his home congregation — the 37th Street Church of Christ in Snyder, Texas.

“I have lots of personal friends who are from Haiti,” the 21-year-old said after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck the poor Caribbean nation Jan. 12 and killed at least 150,000 people.

Inspired to act, Clifton reached beyond Harding’s Searcy, Ark., campus and helped organize a relief effort involving Christian universities across the nation.

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