Join us the last weekend in April 2010 to Help Haiti.
> Saturday, April 24 join us for a dinner fundraiser
> Sunday, April 25 bring in your layette kits for distribution
 
In June we will be sending a missions team to Haiti. Contact Elisabeth Brisbane or Wheeler Winstead for more information.
If you prefer to pay by check, please make check payable to
"Conference Treasurer"
and place in the mission basket or mail to:
7178 Columbia Gateway Drive, Columbia, MD 21046

Write the following in the memo field:
Church #7175: Haiti Emergency, UMCOR Advance # 418325
   
Haiti Cries... And We Cry With Them
(A prayer as we search through the rubble)
by Rev. Safiyah Fosua

Earth shaking
Home breaking
Ground-moved-the-mountain-into-my-way tragedy!
Broken bodies
Broken hearts
Broken lives.

Haiti cries
And we cry with them.

God,
Our hearts are aching as we try to imagine what the daylight brought
To our brothers and sisters in Haiti.
Heal the young eyes that have seen far too much on this day.
Heal the hearts of many who have lost friends, family and a way of life on this day.
Be with those who are missing
          And those who are dying outside of the grasp of
          Loving hands to hold them
          Loving voices to soothe them.

Move us over here from empathy to action
From sympathy to substance
As we contemplate what can be done to help
Today
And many days
Into a forever-changed future.
Amen.
T