Prayers for the People of Haiti

Our hearts and prayers go out to the people of Haiti and all those who have held Haiti close in their hearts and work.

Sixth's mission giving to Haiti has been focused on recent years on Covenant Hospital (now Village Partners International) and, more recently, Partners in Progress.

Funds from the Presbyterian Church's One Great Hour of Sharing will go immediately to help with response and recovery in Haiti. Sixth participates in this special offering, and so your gifts will be used to help the people of Haiti in the coming days.

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Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

As the eyes of the world turn to Haiti, let us join our hearts in prayer:

God of compassion
Please watch over the people of Haiti,
And weave out of these terrible happenings
wonders of goodness and grace.
Surround those who have been affected by tragedy
With a sense of your present love,
And hold them in faith.
Though they are lost in grief,
May they find you and be comforted;
Guide us as a church
To find ways of providing assistance
that heals wounds and provides hope
Help us to remember that when one of your children suffer
We all suffer
Through Jesus Christ who was dead, but lives
and rules this world with you.
Amen.
(Adapted from Book of Common Worship)

-Bruce Reyes-Chow, Gradye Parsons and Linda Valentine

Sunday: Partners in Progress (Haiti) and VBCM (Very Brief Committee Meeting)

Dr. Richard Gosser of Partners in Progress will speak to the committee and other interested members of the Sixth family this Sunday, September 16th, about his work in Fondwa, Haiti. This work is done in cooperation with the Haiti Solidarity Committee and includes efforts on sustainable development, an open air university, and the Fonkose Bank. See http://www.piphaiti.org/ for more on these efforts.

We will welcome Dr. Gosser at 12:30 PM (after worship and fellowship) in the Ridinger Room. Please RSVP to Nora at crjndj@earthlink.net if you are interested in attending. It may be nice, though not necessary, to have refreshments there. If you would like to provide or coordinate refreshments for the presentation, please let Nora, Fred, or me know. If no one volunteers to do this, we'll let the notion of refreshments slide.

A very brief business meeting of the C&C Committee will follow this presentation. We will keep this short and sweet. You will be asked to give careful and prayerful consideration to three requests: (1) willingness to serve as chair/coordinator for one of the C+C Committee sub-committees; (2) our budget request for next year (do we want to ask for more? less? why?); and (3) a possible request from Breachmenders for a very judiciously managed project.