There are several online resources regarding the Haitian earthquake and relief efforts, especially the American Red Cross. Among the Disciples' related resources are information from the Christian Church (DOC)'s relief ministry, Week of Compassion, and our Global Ministries.
Additionally, our WV region ministry partners, Kim and Patrick Bentrott, who serve in Haiti, have been frequently updating their blog with news and pictures from within Haiti.
Please continue to keep the people of Haiti, those working to aid them in the earthquake's aftermath, and those around the world with ties to Haiti.
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The choice to immediately benefit local food pantries was a wise one. Haiti is reteaching the lesson that while "doing something" feels good, it's useless unless it's effective. Haiti has unusually severe goods/service delivery problems: an island, no working ports, poor road system, poor airports versus high density population. CNN piously records people collecting canned goods for Haiti in Nebraska and Pittsburgh, none of which will make it into the Carribean.
It sounds terribly insensitive to look at Haiti (or a Pacific Rim tsunami or a Hurricane Katrina) without acknowledging the anguish of the people affected, and here, my genuinely beloved pastor and friend, is where I wander into some emotionally deficient wilderness. While real people are suffering things which I'll not share here [will blog in extenso this weekend], the stoic mathematics of time, resources and competing needs develop and do not pause a whit to permit time to "run in circles, scream and shout."
Putting political people in charge of disaster management seldom works.
R
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