Thursday, March 11th -

Please keep Tim Hetzner and the Mission and Medical Team in your prayers as they leave today for Haiti. I will be with Pastor Marky - President of the Lutheran Church in Haiti as they distribute needed aid to families through our churches affected by the earthquake. Pray for God to touch people in need with His Mercy and Compassion through all. Updates will be posted as they are available.

Tuesday, March 9th -

Tim Hetzner and members of the Haiti Medical Mission team met with Congressman Peter J. Roskam of Illinois to thank him for his support for our Relief Efforts for the people of Haiti.

Among those pictured are Sue Gross, Illinois Haiti Mission Director, Dr. Susan Busse - head of the Malaria Initiative, Tim Hetzner, President of Lutheran Church Charities, and Congressman Peter Roskam.

Sunday, March 7th -

Mr. John Peterson of Lord of Life Lutheran Church in LaFox presented a check to LCC President Tim Hetzner for the March 11th Haiti Medical Mission trip. John shared that the money was raised Sunday morning after church when it was announced that the Medical Mission Team would be leaving this week for Haiti.

Sunday, March 7th -

Sunday was a busy day at the LCC offices in Addison. Twenty-five volunteers turned out to help Dr. Susan Busse pack up the donated medical supplies that the Haiti Medical Mission team will be taking with them when they leave for Haiti this Thursday. The medical supplies will be flown into Port au Prince Haiti with the team then loaded onto a boat and ferried to Jeremie for use in the medical clinic on Monday.

Sunday, February 28th was the last day of the month-long Haiti Collection in Rochester, New York. On Sunday evening, a tired but very excited Lynn Lillie called LCC staff member Dianna Bonfield to say that Sunday afternoon all but two of the 17 collection sites had dropped off the items they had collected over the past month. Collections from the last two sites on Monday afternoon netted 37 more large boxes, six large cases of water, and a tent. They began sorting, labeling, weighing, and recording all the items Sunday afternoon. They will continue to work through the rest of the week and the evenings at Risen Christ Lutheran Church in Fairport, New York. On Friday, March 5th, Orphan Grain Train (OGT) will drop off a sea container for them to fill, and at 3 PM the container will be sealed and OGT will pick it up and deliver it to a ship that will take it to Port Au Prince, Haiti.

Like the Multiplication of the Loaf of Bread and the Fish, God's Spirit is Still Multiplying Donations that will Help Many in Haiti

Mark Barbero, a member of Risen Christ Lutheran Church in Fairport, New York, is very familiar with that miracle in the scriptures but he didn't expect to see it repeated in his own life.

Last Sunday, Mark Lillie, one of the coordinators for the Haiti Collection Site at Risen Christ, updated the congregation on the progress of the collections as the worshipers could visually see the donations growing around them in the sanctuary. After the service, Mark Barbero, the owner of Debbie Supply Inc, a 53-year-old family owned and operated hardware store, asked what else he could do to help with the collection. Debbie Supply is already a collection site for the community. They are also donating the pallets and the use of a fork lift to load the shipping container from Orphan Grain Train. Mark learned that they needed tools in Haiti to help dig through the rubble (the Haitians have been doing this by hand) and decided that since he owned a hardware store, and tools were his business, he could donate some tools.

At six a.m. the next morning, Mark checked his e-mail before going to work and found a reply from Damien. He told Mark that Bostwick-Braun would match his order and send him double of what he had ordered! By Tuesday a good portion of the order had arrived and the rest would be delivered before the final collection day, this Sunday, February 28th, and in time to place it before the altar at church with the other donations that were dropped off this week.

For more information about Debbie Supply Inc., visit www.debbiesupplyinc.com

For more information about Bostwick-Braun, visit www.bostwick-braun.com

This Sunday, February 28th
1:00 - 7:00 p.m.
A Day of Shopping and More to Benefit Haiti Earthquake Relief

Lincoln Inn
1345 S. Batavia Avenue (Route 31)
Batavia, IL 60510

• More than 35 unique vendors!
• Drawings and giveaways!
• A goodie bag of extras to the first 50 guests!
• Face painting from 2-4 p.m.!
• LCC Comfort Dogs on hand 4-7 p.m.!
• Meet Tim Hetzner and the gang from LCC!
• Visit the Christian radio station K-LOVE booth from 5-7 p.m.!

On the day of the event, Lincoln Inn will extend its Sunday brunch, offering it from 9 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., and will donate $1 for each brunch purchased between noon and 2:00.

Please join us, and bring a friend! If you're on Facebook, please post the link to event on your wall and invite your friends: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=281128843039

We hope to see you on Sunday for a great event to help the people of Haiti!

List of vendors that will be attending:

17 Collection Sites in Rochester, NY

When Pastor Deknatel heard of the collection he suggested that the boxes be stacked up in the sanctuary of the church so as to emphasize the need and the ministry. Lynn reported "Pastor Deknatel is hoping we will not have enough room in our church to sit as the boxes pile up." What a great visual to remind us to continue to pray for the people in Haiti and to keep bringing them hope. After two weeks, the area on the platform next to the altar has nearly 100 boxes stacked to the ceiling and four rows deep.

Word got out and some of the public schools and businesses heard what Risen Christ was doing, they wanted to be part of the action. A local school district decided to use the funds from the district's annual basketball game charity fundraiser (that will be held in middle or late Feb) will be donated to Haiti. They are looking to raise nearly $3000 to aid Haiti.

What a great thing God is doing in and through his people in Rochester, NY. Pray that God blesses their efforts to touch the lives of the people of Haiti and to proclaim the love and compassion of Christ in all they do.

Saturday, February 13, 2010

Thursday, 3 more Semi Trucks left Chicago to South Carolina with Soup Powder, Baby Ointment, Rice Milk and 4 pallets of food items. We also have a truck being sent up to South Carolina from New Orleans containing Creole Beans and Rice and an additional 250 pallets (20,500 cases) of bottled water being sent by rail from California.

All the trucks should arrive at the warehouse by Monday morning and, hopefully, will be in Haiti the following week!