NASHVILLE, TN (ANS) -- A Nashville TV station is reporting that Mark Stuart, former lead singer of the now retired Christian group, Audio Adrenaline, is trapped in the Caribbean town of Jacmel in Haiti.

A picture taken in July 2005 of Mark Stuart with the first orphan adopted with the Hands and Feet Project

A story posted on the WSMV TV Channel 4 website (www.wsmv.com), says, “Thirty miles southwest of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, it’s a nightmare for residents of the Caribbean town of Jacmel. That’s where a local musician is trapped.

“So far, most relief efforts have been focused in Port-au-Prince, where a 7.0 earthquake hit Tuesday.”

In an interview with the TV station, Chris Cotton, a friend of Stuart, said, “It's hard, it's hard to see your friends in that situation, but truthfully, I know that he and his wife are there for a reason.”

About a week ago, Stuart traveled to Haiti for mission work as a part of the Hands and Feet Project, a nonprofit he started.

“There’s about 2,000 people who've died in collapsed buildings,” Stuart told reporter Jonathan Martin via Skype.

He said that Jacmel can’t get help because mountains that provided access to them have collapsed, and there's no relief for the thousands badly wounded.

“We had 20,000 injuries, and we don't have a bandage at the hospital,” said Stuart. “We're out of bandages, we're out of medicine and we're in a desperate situation.”

Martin said that right now, various agencies are working to divert some ships and planes backed up in Port-au-Prince to Jacmel.

“If we don't get supplies in here quickly, you're going to see some major problems,” said Stuart.

Stuart said frustration and desperation are growing, the smell is unbearable and people are sifting through debris to find their loved ones.

“They’re having to saw their bodies in half just to get them out of the rubble because we have no equipment here,” Stuart said.

Cotton said he and others in Nashville are working with local Rep. Jim Cooper's office to get Stuart and his wife Aegis back home to Franklin, Tennessee, where they live.

For more information on the Hands and Feet project, go to http://handsandfeetproject.org

Note: Audio Adrenaline was a Grammy Award-winning Christian rock band that formed in the late 1980s at Kentucky Christian University in Grayson, Kentucky. During the band's 17-year existence, they were awarded two Grammy awards, multiple Dove Awards and they released 17 number one singles.[1] They were regular performers at the annual Creation Festival, Spirit West Coast festival and Agape Music Festival. Audio Adrenaline also performed at the Alive Festival every year up to their last performance in June 2006.

Dan Wooding, 69, is an award winning British journalist now living in Southern California with his wife Norma, to whom he has been married for 46 years. He is the founder and international director of ASSIST (Aid to Special Saints in Strategic Times) and the ASSIST News Service (ANS). He was, for ten years, a commentator, on the UPI Radio Network in Washington, DC., and now hosts the weekly “Front Page Radio” show on KWVE in Southern California and which is also carried on the Calvary Radio Network throughout the United States. The program is also aired in Great Britain on Calvary Chapel Radio UK. Wooding is the author of some 43 books. Two of the latest include his autobiography, “From Tabloid to Truth”, which is published by Theatron Books. To order a copy, press this link. Wooding, who was born in Nigeria of British missionary parents, also recently released “God’s Ambassadors in Japan” which is available at amazon.com.