The St Joseph Parish Haiti Mission team will be leaving September 4th for Port-Au-Prince. The preparations are in full swing!
Thanks to the support of some many generous people, fund-raising has gone very well. We are currently procuring the prescription medications and medical supplies with the monies raised. We expect to transport over a half ton of medicine and tend to the needs of 1,000 people in the community of the parish of Sts. Simon and Jude Parish in Port-Au-Prince.
We have a strong mission team with a good mix of skills, abilities, and personalities. We will surely have a successful mission. The team includes four doctors, three nurses and five support staff. All are parishioners of St. Joseph the Worker (although one couple recently moved their home to a neighboring parish).
So many people are supporting the mission with great ideas, hours of service, and prayer. We are so blessed and grateful. We have already received bins full of individually donated vitamins and medicine through the weekly church collection. The IHS youth group, Lite Weigh, Pro-Life, and other organizations are all engaging in the mission work. The Women’s Guild and Knights of Columbus have provided substantial financial offerings. We are truly a parish of giving and serving Catholics.
Soon we will begin packing and labeling the medicine in patient packages. Parishioners are answering the call to join the support team to get this done across several evenings this summer. If you wish to join us, drop us a note at: STJW-Parish-Mission@hotmail.com
Finally, we are excited to announce, Father Andrew Labatorio, CICM, the missionary pastor of Sts. Simon and Jude parish will visit the St. Joseph the Worker parish on the weekend of August 21-22, 2010! We will be encouraged even more than now as we hear him speak about his work, just two weeks before we represent our parish alongside him in Haiti.
On behalf of the medical mission team - THANK YOU!
Please keep Haiti in your prayers.
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