At last week’s Sunday gathering a guy offered to match whatever funds our church could put together for relief work in Haiti. The news has been horrifying and perhaps many of you have already given to the urgent needs there. But if you haven’t, or if you want to give more, we’ll have a special offering box for Haiti at the Resource Table this coming Sunday. All donations will be matched, which will allow us to double our impact.
We’ll pass the funds along to two reputable organizations: Samaritan’s Purse and Churches Helping Churches, a brand-new initiative started by Mark Driscoll and James MacDonald last week in the wake of the Haiti earthquake.
Driscoll just returned from Haiti yesterday. He reports some news that will make you angry as well as heartbroken – like relief workers hiring teenage Haitian girls for sex. Check out his interview with USA Today for more. You can also see all his Twitter updates and photos sent on the fly from Haiti here.
