Haiti Mission -- September 2005

Welcome to our new web page -- we hope you will come back to read the emails we receive from our church members who will be traveling to Haiti during September, 2005. Keep the team in your prayers -- they depart on September 9th.

The Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church recently gathered and sent school supplies to Haiti. If you are wondering what happened to them, you can rest assured they have arrived.

Jane, one of the members of Good Shepherd, received an email today from Cheron, the young Nurse Practitioner who is the onsite administrator at the orphanage in Cap Haitian.

Part of the email says...

"I went through the boxes and oh were the children estactic as we dolled out backpacks and school supplies etc. You did an amazing job!!!

"Also I wanted to let you know you did great in the packing too, because the more important stuff backpacks and new shoes and things were hidden under the clothes. When the customs officials saw school supplies their eyes light up with greed, they wanted to put heavy taxes on me. Then we decided they could have a couple of notebooks for their kids- they dropped the taxes, they opened one box said baby clothes, and moved on, when I came home and saw the new shoes and backpacks underneath I know I wouldn't have been able to leave the airport with them all, if the packing hadn't been so good."