Grace’s Haiti Mission team will leave on Nov 7 for the island of LaGonave, Haiti. The team of six will be doing construction work while in Haiti. Pastor Shirley and Joe Edgerton recently visited with the team and helped to prepare them for the mission. The Edgerton’s are long term volunteers on LaGonave with the GBGM of the UMC. Haiti, before the hurricane season was already the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphereand since the hurricane season began, the poorest of the poor are hungrier than usual, without work, some without housing due to hurricane damage. The fisherman are having a difficult time as the fish were damaged from the storms, the farmers whose crops are few under good circumstances are now mostly without as the crops were washed away in the storms, schools have yet to open. Shirley shared some most needed items with the team-pencils, pens, spiral notebooks, TUMS or generic equivalent, work gloves. If you would like to donate any of the items, please bring them to the donation box on the lower level and mark them clearly “Haiti”.
Please have donations to the Church prior to October 31, 2008.
The team will return home on November 14, 2008.
