A matching grant is challenging YOU to Support Rural Healthcare in Haiti ! On January 24 and 31 the St. Paul’s Outreach Committee will be asking you to support a fundraising campaign to bolster up the rural healthcare efforts of local Haitian organizations well known to parishioner and physician Bart Smoot. For every dollar you … READ MORE…
Our patients expectantly waiting to be seen at the Torbeck clinic on Saturday 1/31/2015 St Paul’s Cathedral has a special relationship with one Haitian Episcopal Church: St. Paul’s in Torbeck Haiti. In 2007 Drs. Molly Kelly, Bart Smoot and Martin Kabongo along with Carolyn Lief and Sue Kelly did a field trip to Torbeck to … READ MORE…
There are 3 “R’s” of disaster, according to Robert Radke, President of Episcopal Relief & Development, speaking to the disaster of the earthquake in Haiti: First is the “Rescue” phase – usually the first week or so following a disaster. Second is the Relief” phase, where the focus is on creating temporary safe and sanitary … READ MORE…
Bart Smoot brings this to our attention: now there are floods in Haiti: Flooding triggered by heavy rain killed at least 11 people in Les Cayes, Haiti’s third most populous city and an area unscathed by the devastating January 12 earthquake that flattened much of the country’s capital. Three were killed in Torbeck, which is … READ MORE…
[The Episcopal News Service] The world has been turned upside down, as the bones of the earth have shifted underneath Haiti. We are reminded of life’s fragility and unpredictability as we watch the news reports and see the devastation of human lives.Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere; 80 percent of her people … READ MORE…
Bart Smoot passes along this letter and adds, I see good future potential for mission trips that involve rebuilding. Dear Sisters and brothers in Christ,Please let me take some time to give you some update of the situation of Haiti and your beloved partners in the Episcopal church of Haiti. God has saved the lives … READ MORE…
We have several updates for you. First, The Wall Street Journal has a video showing the efforts of the Episcopal Bishop and his priests in running a refugee camp. The Episopcal Cafe also points us at an article in the Wall Street Journal about religious groups’ contributions. The Episcopal Cafe also has additional updated information … READ MORE…
Fr. Frank Logue, Vicar of King of Peace Episcopal Church in Kingsland, Georgia, shares this video reflection in response to the question “Where is God in the earthquake?”
What has our beloved hymn “Jerusalem the Golden”, #624, got to do with the earthquake in Haiti? The words were translated from a 12th century text by Bernard of Cluny by an invalid Church of England priest, John Mason Neale, in the mid 1800s whose other passion was caring for the poor elderly and children. … READ MORE…
Episcopal Relief and Development is already on the ground in Haiti. Donate to their efforts at http://www.er-d.org/ . More info on church eforts from from Episcopal LIfe Online. The Episcopal Cafe asks, where is God in the Earthquake? Lauren Stanley, Episcopal Missionary to Haiti, was in the US at the time of the earthquake. Her … READ MORE…