How You Can Help With The Crisis In Haiti
January 13, 2010
Respond with Prayer, Aid for Haiti
Please pray for our brothers and sisters in Haiti, who experienced a devastating 7.0-magnitude earthquake January 12.
Send donations payable to the Texas Annual Conference, 5215 Main Street, Houston, Texas, 77002. Memo line: UMCOR International Disaster Response Advance #418325.
Call for Health Kits
The United Methodist Committee on Relief has issued a call for Health Kits, which provide basic necessities to people who have been forced to leave their homes because of human conflict or natural disaster. Health kits are also used as learning tools in personal hygiene and nutrition classes. When people gain the knowledge and materials to maintain personal hygiene, their overall health improves.
Please follow the directions exactly. Include all items; do not add items that are not on the lists. Extra gifts, though given with the best of intentions, render a kit unusable and must be removed. Note: All items must be new.
Place the following items inside a sealed one-gallon plastic bag:
1 hand towel (15" x 25" up to 17" x 27")
1 washcloth
1 comb (large and sturdy, not pocket-sized)
1 nail file or fingernail clippers (no emery boards or toenail clippers)
1 bath-size bar of soap (3 oz. and up)
1 toothbrush (single brushes only in original wrapper, No child-size brushes)
1 large tube of toothpaste (4.5 oz. or larger, expiration date must be 6 months or longer in advance of the date of shipment to UMCOR Sager Brown)
6 adhesive plastic strip sterile bandages
Value: $12 per kit.
In a separate envelope, please send a check for at least $1 for each kit to help UMCOR Sager Brown with the costs of processing and shipping kits around the world. Important: Please do not include any religious, political or patriotic notes or emblems in any kit.
Deliver kits to TAC Disaster Response Consultant Rev. Clay Whitaker at Old River Terrace UMC, 161 I-10 East, Channelview, TX, 77530.
United Methodist Response to be on Local Houston News
KHWB / WB-39 Interviewed Bishop Huie and said they plan to air the story at 9:00. They also plan to post it online at http://www.39online.com/
You can also hear Bishop Huie discuss the UM Response at http://www.txcumc.org/huiemessageonhaiti.
Mission Teams
It is too soon to consider sending teams into Haiti. UMCOR will advise the Texas Conference when it is ready for work teams. Work projects will be named by the Methodist Church of Haiti, team leaders must be trained; have had prior Haiti experience and teams must be self-contained. For team leader details, e-mail .
Links to other United Methodist News Links and more ways to help
