PTCA Haiti Offering Update

The Presbytery of the Twin Cities Area has joined hands and  hearts with Churches and Presbyteries across the nation to stand in the GAP for all who suffer from the Haiti earthquake!

The GAP we want to fill includes our GIVING, our ACTION and our PRAYER . Presbyterian Disaster Assistance has already provided $540,000 in aid to Haiti. Here are specific ways you can be of help and service immediately “to the least of these my children.”

Opportunities for GIVING:

Our PTCA Offering for Haiti continues progress towards the goal of raising $25,000 in giving from churches  and individuals in the PTCA. As of February 22^nd, our total giving is $$21,164.18. Thank you for your diligent collection of offerings for this emergency relief effort. We all know the rebuilding of life for the people of Haiti will be ongoing for months to come. Our Campaign will culminate at the March Presbytery meeting, where the Mission Witness committee will bring forward an update on relief efforts of PDA.

All donations should be made out to Presbyterian Disaster Assistance and sent directly to the Presbytery Office at 122 W. Franklin Ave. , Suite 508, Minneapolis, MN 55404 . Please indicate Haiti Offering in the memo line. If your congregation has already responded with a gift of some sort, possibly through another agency, please let us know in the Presbytery office so that we may report the extent of our gifts to one another. Please email the Presbytery office at communications@ptcaweb.org  and let us know other creative ways your congregation and members have reached out with loving support to our dear friends in this time of extreme need.

Opportunities for ACTION:

The PDA is searching for trauma counselors fluent in French or Creole to increase the communication and effectiveness of the relief effort.

PDA and its partners are seeking qualified persons interested in offering emotional care/staff care for Haitian national staff engaged in development and disaster relief activities in Haiti. Go to the PDA website  for applications and contact information.

Opportunities for PRAYER :

Remember there is a Worship Insert  for your church bulletin or newsletters. Also please remember to use this prayer offered on the PDA website in your individual and corporate times of prayer and worship.

We pray for Haiti

 

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 heal wounds and provide hope.
Help us to remember that when one of your children suffers
we all suffer;
through Jesus Christ who was dead, but lives
and rules this world with you. Amen.   

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