Joyful children receive tickets for food at a feeding point set up by Brethren in Port-au-Prince. The feeding program put in place by Eglise des Freres Haitiens (Haitian Church of the Brethren) with help from Brethren Disaster Ministries, is at the Paul Lochard No. 2 School. The program started on Jan. 25 and is serving about 500 children with
Delegation Member Sends Update from Haiti
Jeff Boshart (top left in red hat) joins a Church of the Brethren delegation in a visit to one of the Brethren-built homes in Haiti. In the background is a house in Port-au-Prince built by Brethren Disaster Ministries for the widow of a Haitian Brethren pastor–found in good shape while nearby houses had collapsed in the earthquake. Boshart coordinates
Emergency Disaster Fund Receives More Than $100,000 for Haiti
Sunday school classes at Highland Avenue Church of the Brethren in Elgin, Ill. (above), Elizabethtown (Pa.) College students, seniors at a Brethren Retirement Community in Greenville, Ohio, musicians at the University of La Verne, and churches of Virlina District are among the many across the country who are contributing to the Church of the Brethren relief
Disaster Ministries Executive Posts Final Journal Entries from Haiti Trip
Roy Winter (top center in red hat), executive of Brethren Disaster Ministries, stands in front of a house his program built in Port-au-Prince. Winter’s group visited the house during their delegation to the earthquake affected areas of Port-au-Prince, and found the Brethren-built house still stands while neighboring buildings have collapsed. View a video interview with Winter filmed on his return from Haiti yesterday (go to PageServer?pagename=serve_brethren_disaster_ministries
Church World Service Distributes Food, Water, Supplies in Haiti
Above: Warehouse of disaster relief supplies at the Brethren Service Center in New Windsor, Md. The supplies distributed in Haiti by Church World Service (CWS) are warehoused, processed, and shipped from the Brethren Service Center by the Church of the Brethren’s Material Resources staff. For video reports of the Haiti relief effort at the Brethren Service Center, made by Brethren videographer David
Brethren Congregations Across the US Take Part in the Haiti Relief Effort
Highland Avenue Church of the Brethren collected and assembled 300-plus hygiene kits for Haiti after church on Sunday. Sunday school classes helped assemble the kits, which will be sent to the Brethren Service Center in New Windsor, Md., for processing and shipping to Haiti, where they will be distributed by Church World Service to quake survivors.
Brethren Delegation in Haiti Begins Reporting from Earthquake Zone
Ludovic St. Fleur, mission coordinator in Haiti, surveys the damage at Delmas 3 Church of Eglise des Freres Haitiens (the Haitian Church of the Brethren) in Port-au-Prince. St. Fleur is one of a four-member delegation from the Church of the Brethren that is now in Port-au-Prince connecting with Haitian Brethren leaders and doing an assessment of needs following the earthquake of last
Relief Supplies Go to Haiti from the Brethren Service Center
Above: Members of three Church of the Brethren congregations in western Pennsylvania are among those across the country doing something toward the Haiti relief effort. Three congregations worked together to collect materials and cash for vitally needed hygiene kits to be sent to Haiti via the Brethren Service Center in New Windsor, Md. Marilyn Lerch (at right
Prayer Requested for Nigerian Brethren; Haitian Pastor Is Alive
Newsline is the Church of the Brethren e-mail news service. Go to www.brethren.org/newsline to subscribe or unsubscribe. Newsline Update Jan. 20, 2010 “Your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever” (Psalm 138:8b). Prayer requested for Nigerian Brethren; Haitian pastor is alive. Haitian Brethren pastor Ives Jean is alive, but injured, reports Roy Winter, executive director
Church World Service Expedites Emergency Aid in Haiti
Church of the Brethren staff assemble hygiene kits for the relief effort in Haiti, during a staff retreat that is being held this week: (from left) general secretary Stan Noffsinger; Mary Jo Flory-Steury, executive director of Ministry; Carol Bowman, coordinator of Stewardship Formation; and Ray Glick, coordinator of Donor Visitation and Deferred Gifts. Brethren Disaster