Mission Viejo , California ( CNN ) -- When Marty Kubicki received a text message that his wife , Aahmes , and two teenage daughters , Olivia and Alexis , were alive in Haiti , he was overwhelmed with relief . `` I felt like an enormous burden had been placed off me , but at the same time I knew that they were OK . I always felt they made it , '' he said . Groups of church members have been volunteering at an orphanage for nearly six years , since church members Bill Manassero , his wife Suzette , and Jim Duggan opened the center . But by Friday there was chaos at the Maison De Lumiere Orphanage in Haiti as 11 American missionary volunteers were trying to find a way to leave after severe shortages of food , water and medicine sparked anger in people they had been trying to help . `` People are becoming hostile at the missionary workers and we now find ourselves desperately trying to get them out , '' said Mike Maiolo , senior pastor of the volunteers ' home church in Mission Viejo . He said he had received urgent messages from Haiti that everyone wanted to leave . The Kubickis and the others from Mission Viejo Christian Church arrived in Port-Au-Prince a week ago to help assist nearly 100 abused and abandoned children at the orphanage . The facility sustained heavy damage in the earthquake but no one was killed , he said . Within hours of the quake , the volunteers became de facto nursing assistants after word spread that Maison De Lumiere was serving as a makeshift triage center . `` Lots of doctors and nurses have been coming by the facility because word 's gotten out , so there 's all these people being pulled out of rubble and they 're assisting and attending to the injured as best as they can , '' Marty Kubicki said . Judy Beltis left her husband , six daughters and five grandchildren in California when she came to Haiti on January 8 . Moments after the walls and shelves around her collapsed , she found herself attending the injured and working to save lives , said her husband , Paul . `` This is a mom who could n't put a Band-Aid on her kids when they had a cut finger because she was so squeamish , and now she 's dealing with whatever needs to be done , '' he said . On Thursday , the family was assured that Judy Beltis was safe and protected . `` I 'm going to urge her at some point to come back and get a little rest and restoration , but I know she 'll want to head right back , '' said daughter Jaime . But that was before Maiolo received the urgent messages late Thursday . He said the situation had deteriorated to the extent that no one felt safe going outside the compound . Contact with his missionary members in Haiti has been limited to occasional text messages , Internet streaming and e-mail , he said , and his volunteers have not been able to reach U.S. State Department officials . `` The world around us is in such need when something like this happens and we 've got to be there for them , but at the same time , there must be a quick way to get them out when there is nothing more to give , '' Maiolo said .
Situation turns chaotic for 11 American volunteers at the De Lumiere Orphanage . Shortages of food , water spark panic in people who had been trying to help . All are from Mission Viejo Christian Center in California .