Archive for January, 2010
Some Updates
Posted on 28. Jan, 2010 by Lutheran World Relief.
Just over two weeks after the earthquake in Haiti and our relief efforts are in full swing. This morning I was pleased to receive word that LWR’s second shipment of material aid will soon be on its way to Haiti. In partnership with International Relief and Development, we are sending 11,550 quilts and 1,675 health [...]
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Critical Issues in Haiti
Posted on 27. Jan, 2010 by Lutheran World Relief.
More from Rev. Matthew Harrison It’s Tuesday afternoon, the 26th of January and I’m somewhere over the Caribbean en route to Miami. I’m tired. I’m filled with anxiousness as we move toward the next phase of disaster relief for Haiti. The assessment team was present with the Haitian Lutherans. The team listened. The team saw [...]
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Let us Pray
Posted on 26. Jan, 2010 by Lutheran World Relief.
Along with your gifts and requests to help the people of Haiti, many of you have sent along beautiful prayers. I’m pleased to announce that LWR has created a forum for you and others to share your prayers for the people of Haiti. Take a moment to post a prayer if you feel so moved [...]
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Leave it to the New Yorker
Posted on 26. Jan, 2010 by Lutheran World Relief.
In an earlier post I described briefly the chaos that ensued on I believe, the 23rd of January at the hospital compound in Jimani, when a significant tremor struck the area. 1500 patients and family members, doctors, nurses, children, locals, expatriates all ran for their lives and out of the buildings. One poor man jumped [...]
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Thank You
Posted on 26. Jan, 2010 by Lutheran World Relief.
More from the Rev. Matthew Harrison in the Dominican Republic Monday, January 25 — The team of LCMS docs just debriefed, packed themselves into two vans here in Jimani, Dominican Republic, and headed off on the six hour trip to the capital and back home. What an amazing group! Not a half hour ago, we [...]
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Rev. Matthew. Harrison submits his second LWR post.
Posted on 25. Jan, 2010 by Lutheran World Relief.
I’ve never been so proud and humbled to be a member of the LCMS. When the LCMS assessment team arrived in Jimani on the southern Dominican/Haiti border, it was late. It was early morning before we got into bed for a very short night of sleep. Rev. Ted Krey, Rev. Walter, and Danelle Putnam greeted [...]
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On the Ground
Posted on 23. Jan, 2010 by Lutheran World Relief.
The Rev. Matthew Harrison, Executive Director of LCMS World Relief and Human Care and a member of LWR’s board of directors, is on the ground working with earthquake survivors, and offers this report and his reflections. John, Friends of LWR, Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Already last Tuesday a team of a dozen triage and [...]
