Haiti Earthquake
UMCOR: One Year After the Haiti Earthquake
UMCOR news and updates one year after the Haiti earthquake of January 12, 2010.
Podcasts from the UMCOR Haiti Update:
- * Rev. Jim Gulley, UMCOR Consultant
- * Melissa Crutchfield, UMCOR's International Disaster
Response Executive - * Juan Carlos Real, Head of Mission in Haiti
Mike Willis, the first Volunteer Management Coordinator for the Haiti Response Project, returned from Haiti early in November. In this Advent/Christmas reflection, Mike expresses his gratitude to all who held him in prayer, remarks on the miraculous and healing work of Christ, and expresses hope for the future.
Haiti Response Plan Approved for Additional Three Years
The Board of Directors of UMCOR approved a grant of $3,094,500 to continue to field and host volunteer teams to address the humanitarian needs and priority projects of the Eglise Methodiste de Haiti (EMH). Read more.
Exploring the Haitian Diaspora
by Melissa Hinnen
As part of the 2010 Mission Travel Study to Haiti, nine United Methodists explored the culture and challenges of the Haitian Diaspora through interviews, community visits, and meetings with church leadership.
As I reflect on Haiti many images and thoughts come to my mind as a pastor, a clinical psychologist and a team leader. I think of the Haiti I knew before January 12, 2010, and simultaneously those images are mixed with images from my recent mission trip in September. Read more of Nora Jones reflection...
Jones also developed a Bible Study resource for the UMVIM trip, Restoration of Community in the Aftermatch of Natural Disaster. (PDF, 2 pp, 92 KB)
Mission Students Meet in Miami
by Melissa Hinnen
11/12/10: After eight weeks of conducting personal research and corresponding by email and online chats, nine United Methodists met in Miami this week as part of the Mission Travel Study to Haiti.
Navigating a Landscape of Hope in Haiti
by Cynthia Fierro Harvey
7/16/10: The destruction the earthquake in Haiti caused is unprecedented, and so must our efforts in relief and recovery be in terms of creativity, patience, and perseverance.
Haiti Relief, Six Months after the Quake
by Linda Unger
7/6/10: They aren't out of the woods, not by a long shot. But over the past 6 months, the Haitian people have begun to mobilize for recovery. UMCOR is there-digging in for the long haul.
L'Eglise Methodiste d'Haiti Plans for the Future
by Melissa Hinnen
6/29/10: In the midst of earthquake recovery, staff from UMCOR met with leaders of the Methodist Church of Haiti to strategize long-term development.
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