Parkcrest: Respond to Haiti

I took a bit of a break here with Christmas and everything, which has lasted a bit longer than I anticipated. I’ll be back soon, but wanted to pop back in to let those of you from Parkcrest know that we will be responding as a church to the Earthquake and subsequent crisis in Haiti.

We will be partnering with a mission’s organization in Haiti called New Missions who will be working to restore damaged schools, food storehouses and medical clinics.

If you would like to give to Parkcrest’s Disaster Relief Fund in order to help with our response, you can do that online, here. Indicate that your gift is for Missions, and when our finance department emails you to ask which Missions it is specifically for tell them “Disaster Relief”. Follow the instructions on the website to follow up with the finance department and direct your gift to “Disaster Relief”.

There is also a possibility that a team could go to Haiti later this year for disaster relief work. If that is something that you may be interested in considering, send Ginger an email including your name, phone number and email address. Indicate that you’re interested in more information about being a part of relief work in Haiti. Someone will get in contact with you when there’s more information.

And of course, we should be praying. Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere and there are reports of 30,000-100,000 dead. Pray for the relief workers. Pray for clean water and food to be able to be delivered. Pray for necessary medical supplies to be able to make it. And pray that this will be an opportunity for the church to be the church, and for people to turn to Christ in the midst of this all.