Response to Haiti

Several people have asked Leadership Network about churches’ response to the recent earthquake in Haiti. Here are a couple things that we are aware of:

WORLD VISION CONFERENCE CALL

Tomorrow, Friday 1/15 at 11:00 am Pacific, you can join Max Lucado, Bill Hybels and Rich Stearns of World Vision on a conference call to hear first hand accounts and the most up-to-date information about the devastating earthquake in Haiti and what World Vision and churches around the country are doing to respond. Click here for the details: http://media.leadnet.org/urgent_haiti_conference_call.pdf 

You can also visit www.worldvisionchurches.org for more information.

MISSION OF HOPE

Mission of Hope works very closely with both the Haitian and U.S. government and they are very efficient with use of donations. We have 1.5 million meals in the warehouse being distributed immediately. The most desperate needs are for medical supplies, food, water and fuel.

For updates from the ground you can go to http://disasterrelief.mohhaiti.org/. 

To donate, go to www.mohhaiti.org.  On the home page there is a disaster update with a tab that reads  >>YOUR GIVING CAN HELP HAITI NOW! CLICK HERE!<<. 

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If your church is responding in a direct way to help the people in Haiti, please feel free to post a comment.

Comments

[Brian Proffit]

After reading the Livesay Haiti blog saying bluntly "Thanks for thinking of us, but if you don't speak Creole and know how to clean wounds please don't come. We don't have the ability to house and feed you." we decided the best effort was to work through agencies already there. As Compassion International sponsors ourselves, it was an easy choice to send money to an agency that has already been working with hundreds of Haitian children...and will be a main source of support for who knows how many that just became orphaned.

[Jan Ruppert Paron]

HAITI: PRAY & GIVE RALLY

LOCATION
Lighthouse Church of All Nations,
4501 W. 127th Street,
Alsip, Illinois 60803

DATE/TIME
January 17, 2010 at 7:00 p.m.

Led by Senior Pastor Dan Willis, numerous Chicago area churches will unite for this one-hour rally. The Lighthouse Church will donate 100 percent of the proceeds to the American Red Cross.

Lighthouse is one of many churches that has congregants with family directly affected by the earthquake and some who have yet to hear from loved ones. With respect to assisting Haiti, Willis states, “Though many of us wish we could go to Haiti to help, we are compelled to do what we can from Chicago to help our brothers and sisters who have experienced this cataclysmic event."

The Lighthouse Church of All Nations is a 2,000 member, nondenominational church with a congregation representing over 61 nationalities. It has been in existence for 32 years under the leading of Pastor Dan Willis.

In its church history, Lighthouse always endeavored to help those in need. Most recently, Pastor Willis appeared on FOX News and CNN for giving over $50,000 to the community in 2009.

For more information, contact the main office at 708.385.6020 or E-mail Renee' Bradley at reneembradley@yahoo.com.

Lighthouse Church of All Nations
http://www.thelighthousechurch.org