**The following are three opportunities to connect and help with Haiti. If you have any questions please contact the church office at office@nwpresby.org
HELP FOR HAITI
In response to the devastation caused by the 7.0 earthquake that hit Haiti on Tuesday January 12, the Mission Committee has unanimously voted to request donations for the people there. Checks made payable to New Wilmington Presbyterian Church, and earmarked for this purpose, will be sent by our treasurer Kay Taylor to World Vision International for first response efforts. Please note the person handling these funds at World Vision, Sonia Patterson, is personally known to members of our Dominican Republic Mission team as she is their main translator. Approximately 100 aircraft land each day at Port-au-Prince airport. Current priorities for landing slots are water and water equipment, food and medical, and transportation and logistics support.
World Vision has signed an agreement with Air Serv International to provide one light aircraft to transport people and cargo (14,000 lbs capacity) between Santo Domingo and Port-au-Prince, making two rotations per day. According to relief staff, these flights will radically improve transports of staff and goods.
You've helped provide
hospitals with much-needed medical supplies and rescued an orphanage that had
nowhere else to turn — all this in addition to strengthening and responding to
the needs within the existing 20 World Vision program areas in Haiti.
Updates are available on this website:
info@news.worldvision.org
HELP for HAITI -- Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (PDA)
· $100,000.00 of One Great Hour of Sharing gifts from last Easter were sent immediately to Haiti.
· Presbyterian Disaster Assistance is on the ground. For updates and information on their response visit this website,
http:// www.pcusa.org/pda/responsel1atinamerica/haitiindex.htm).
· PDA has set a $1 million goal for Haiti.
-- You can give directly now, using a credit card, by going to: http://www.pcusa.org/give/online/projectSelectAction.do?n umberString=DR000064
-- Or, our treasurer Kay Taylor can forward gifts through the presbytery office in the months ahead (designate: "Haiti DR000064" and make the checks payable to NWPC). The needs there will be ongoing for a long time.
Mark Hare and Sharyn Babe, PC (USA) missionaries, are serving in Haiti. http://www.pcusa.org/missionyearbook/Octl10.htm
A NOTE and HELP FOR HAITI FROM NANCY CALLISTER of GRACE MISSION CHURCH
Posted at approx 6:30pm on Jan 16, 2010What a difference 24 hours make. The Martsolfs as well as Pastor Butch Lee and the other 14 from the construction team are back home safe and sound. George just talked with Brother Butch and he had planned to take it a bit easy today but they have been called and interviewed by newpapers, TV and radio stations. Brother Butch did share that they have lots of stories to tell and George and I can’t wait to hear them! Through this terrible tragedy doors are being opened to share the Gospel and tell people about the work of GMTH.
We still have not heard anything from Pastor Beril but we do know he and his family are safe. I spoke with Adony, Pastor Beril’s son who lives in Pittsburgh, and he gave me the cell numbers for Pastor Beril’s and Osmine’s cell phones and I was able to go to a local Haitian market this AM to add minutes to the phones for whenever they become usable and charged.
While at the market I had the opportunity to speak with the owner who grew up in Cape Haitian (northern Haiti). He told me that he heard that Leogane (lay-o-gone) was severely damaged and we have a church and school not far from there in Flon so that is cause for great concern.... See More
Please continue to pray for the following –
• Food, water and medical supplies to be able to be dispersed to all those who need it.
• Word from Pastor Beril about our people in the damaged areas, especially Carrefour, Riviere Froid and Flon.
• Word about the physical damage to our churches, schools and medical/dental clinic.
I do want to share a huge PRAISE THE LORD with you. Our church here in FL has a Haitian Church we sponsor in Belle Glade, a community about 40 miles west of West Palm. Their pastor is Pastor Saintil and he has been here in the US for 4 years and has been working the entire time to get his wife and children here in FL to join him. Numerous times it seemed things were moving forward and then more Haitian ‘red tape’ would happen. I sent a post out on Facebook on Wednesday to see if any of my friends from church had heard how his family was and was overjoyed when my friend Connie responded “After 4 years of separation, his family arrived in the US on Tues!!!! and are safe with him now. God is right on time!” That’s right, his family arrived here in FL from Haiti on Tuesday before the earthquake hit!!!
The earthquake has had an overwhelming affect on Grace Mission churches. The people in our church communities have been hit hard. We will be responding quickly and will be looking to long-term recovery as we address their needs. The needs in the Grace Mission communities will be considerable. While the large relief agencies may be able to help with some of the human needs, they do not usually fund church and school reconstruction nor are they in this for the long-term recovery.
We have established the GMTH Earthquake Recovery Fund and are requesting donations from our supporters. Donations can be made to GMTH with the notation ERF and sent to Grace Mission to Haiti, PO Box 211025, Royal Palm Beach, FL 33421 or through JustGive on our website, www.gracemissionpage.org.
We would also appreciate any appeals for this fund that be made in your local churches.