Showering Haitian Babies and Mothers with Love
Double-Sided Bulletin Insert: Presbyterian Times Online:_July2010
"Miracle Baby" pulled out of the rubble after 24 hours. (AP News)
Mission Work Can be Fun!
For most young people (and their moms and dads), there is nothing more exciting than preparing for a new baby. Gazing into a infant’s bright eyes we yearn to make contact with the future, not only that of our family, but of the whole human race.
However, anticipating that future for Haitian babies and their mothers can be a frightening prospect, not only in the earthquake devastated region in Central Haiti, but in the whole country.
Since the January, 2010 disaster, upwards of a million people are still living in tent cities amid the dust and the rubble that has crushed already difficult lives. It has been recently documented that many expectant mothers who are living under these conditions are giving birth to premature babies–babies born at 25 weeks are not uncommon.
The churches of Providence Presbytery want to help. The Hunger Action Team and the Presbyterian Women are teaming up to host a Baby Shower on Sunday, August 29th at 2PM at Purity Presbyterian Church, Chester. Baby gifts needed are : CLOTH diapers, • baby t-shirts, • diaper pins, • gowns, • sleepers, • washcloths, • baby sweaters, • receiving blankets.
Homemade sweaters and receiving blankets are especially welcomed! If you need an easy sweater pattern find a link to a quick and easy pattern on the Presbytery’s home page in the Haiti Baby S
hower Ad.
Come to the shower prepared to have fun and learn about Haiti as well as preparing individual care packages for mothers and babies using the donated items that are brought.
Disaster Relief Kits reach Haiti
This past Spring the churches of Providence Presbytery came together
to prepare disaster relief kits containing hygiene items for Haiti. Through the efforts of volunteers and
work done during the Presbytery Youth Mission retreat 2010, 950 kits were prepared and boxed, with the possibility of more kits to be sent later
in the summer. These kits were sent down to the Port of Miami along with other relief items gathered in the Charlotte Metro region by Charlotte
Presbytery in the 18 wheel tractor trailer owned by Charlotte Presbytery’s Disaster Response Team. Once arrived at the enormous shipping port, the cargo was loaded onto a commercial freighter. The container has arrived in Haiti and undergoing processing by the Haitian Customs Authority and will soon be distributed, most likely in the new refugee tent cities.
Double-Sided Bulletin Insert: Presbyterian Times Online:_July2010
