WHAT CAN WE DO TO HELP?


HAITIAN & CHILEAN DISASTERS
By this time all of us are aware of the tragedies in Haiti
and Chile. This is the worst disaster ever to strike
Haiti in its history. We can’t do it all BUT we have to
do something!

NEWS ABOUT THE EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF CHILE (Updated Regularly)
NEW! Update 3-6-2010
Update 3-2-2010
Update 3-2-2010


NEWS ABOUT THE EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF HAITI (Updated Regularly)
NEW! Update 3-6-2010
Update 2-23-2010
Update 2-17-2010
Update 2-11-2010
Update 2-10-2010 MSNBC: ERD and Episcopal-founded Partners in Health
Update 2-9-2010
Update 2-5-2010
Update 2-4-2010
Update 1-29-2010
Update 1-28-2010
Update 1-26-2010
Update 1-24-2010
Update 1-22-2010
Update 1-21-2010
Update 1-20-2010
Update 1-18-2010

RESOURCES
Litany for Haiti
Message from the Presiding Bishop
Episcopal Relief & Development


A MESSAGE FROM OUR DIOCESE

Dear Friends,

I was part of a conference call with the president of Episcopal Relief & Development, Rob Radke, who gave us an update on the situation in Haiti.

Thankfully, the Bishop of Haiti and his wife are both alive. The bishop’s wife, did however, sustain minor injuries. Sadly, some diocesan staff members have not been accounted for. The cathedral, convent, and diocesan headquarters were all destroyed. We are losing communications due to the inability to recharge cell phones.

Funds from Episcopal Relief & Development have been disbursed to the diocesan account. Two of our staff from New York are enroute to the Dominican Republic where they will assess the situation and next week should be able to have more concrete plans in place.

Rob reminded us of the 3 R’s: Rescue, Relief, and Recovery. Organizations such as the military and Red Cross are there now for the rescue workthey are there for the “heavy lifting”. Rescue is always the first phase of an operation such as this. Episcopal Relief & Development will be on the ground for relief and recovery. Church organizations are equipped for relief which will last for at least several months and for recovery which restores services and builds houses through an integrated program. We will be in this for the long haul which could take at least ten years.

This challenge is huge. The community knows its needs and we will be there to support them as they rebuild. We ask for your prayers and support as the people of Haiti face the future. As President Obama said yesterday, “you are not forsaken.” And I know the people of the Episcopal Church and the Diocese of Oregon will not allow the people of Haiti to be forsaken nor forgotten.

Faithfully,

Ellen A. Nesbitt, Diocesan Coordinator
Episcopal Relief & Development



WARNING: SOME IMAGES ARE GRAPHIC, DISCRETION ADVISED.



Photo/Lauren Stanley: Members of the Episcopal Diocese of Haiti's Cathédrale Sainte Trinité (Holy Trinity Cathedral) in Port-au-Prince pray Feb. 8 in what Bishop Jean Zaché Duracin is calling the diocese's "open-air cathedral." Set in the cathedral ruins, it consists of some plastic sheeting stretched over a frame of two-by-fours that shelters some pews rescued from the cathedral ruins. The cathedral was destroyed by the magnitude-7 Jan. 12 earthquake that hit just outside the Haitian capital.


Photo/Lauren Stanley: Plastic sheeting stretched over a frame of two-by-fours shelters some pews rescued from the ruins of the Episcopal Diocese of Haiti's Cathédrale Sainte Trinité (Holy Trinity Cathedral) in Port-au-Prince and forms what Bishop Jean Zaché Duracin is calling the diocese's "open-air cathedral." The cathedral was destroyed by the magnitude-7 Jan. 12 earthquake that hit just outside the Haitian capital.


Photo/Lauren Stanley: Members of the Episcopal Diocese of Haiti's Cathédrale Sainte Trinité (Holy Trinity Cathedral) in Port-au-Prince search the cathedral ruins Feb. 8 looking for pieces of the cathedral's world-famous frescoes that depicted biblical stories in Haitian motifs. The cathedral was destroyed by the magnitude-7 Jan. 12 earthquake that hit just outside the Haitian capital.


Photo/Lauren Stanley: A fragment of a fresco depicting Jesus' baptism in the Jordon River is apparently the only sizeable portion of the world-famous murals in the Episcopal Diocese of Haiti's Cathédrale Sainte Trinité (Holy Trinity Cathedral) that survived the magnitude-7 Jan. 12 earthquake that hit just outside the Haitian capital. The baptism fresco began approximately 12 feet above the floor of the cathedral's north transept.


Photo/Mary Frances Schjonberg: Some of the world-famous frescoes in the Episcopal Diocese of Haiti's Cathédrale Sainte Trinité (Holy Trinity Cathedral) in Port-au-Prince are visible in this November 2008 photo taken during Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori's visit to the diocese. They include the baptism of Jesus in the north transept and the reredos.


Photo/Lauren Stanley: All that remains of the nativity portion of the world-famous reredos fresco in the Episcopal Diocese of Haiti's Cathédrale Sainte Trinité (Holy Trinity Cathedral) in Port-au-Prince is this small fragment from the mural's lower left-hand corner.


Photo/Mary Frances Schjonberg: The nativity of Jesus was part of the world-famous reredos fresco in the Episcopal Diocese of Haiti's Cathédrale Sainte Trinité (Holy Trinity Cathedral) in Port-au-Prince.


Photo/Lauren Stanley: Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori and Episcopal Diocese of Haiti Bishop Jean Zaché Duracin survey the ruins Feb. 8 of the diocese's Cathédrale Sainte Trinité (Holy Trinity Cathedral) in Port-au-Prince.


Photo/Lauren Stanley: Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori and Episcopal Diocese of Haiti Bishop Jean Zaché Duracin survey the ruins of the diocese's Cathédrale Sainte Trinité (Holy Trinity Cathedral) in Port-au-Prince.


Photo/Eddy Alcindor: Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori points Feb. 8 to the picture of a young student pinned to a door from the Holy Trinity school complex adjacent to the diocese's Cathédrale Sainte Trinité (Holy Trinity Cathedral) in Port-au-Prince.


Photo/Lauren Stanley: Haitians climb over the remains of the Salle Sainte Cecile, Port-au-Prince's main concert hall that was built in 1979 as part of the Holy Trinity school complex adjacent to the diocese's Cathédrale Sainte Trinité (Holy Trinity Cathedral) in Port-au-Prince.


Photo/Eddy Alcindor: Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori and Episcopal Diocese of Haiti Bishop Jean Zaché Duracin confer Feb. 8 with the Rev. Lauren Stanley, an Episcopal Church appointed missionary to Haiti whom Duracin has designated as his liaison with the wider church. The three met at the Centre de Developpement Diocesain et de Secours on the grounds of the diocese's seminary in Port-au-Prince. Administered by Duracin's wife Marie-Edithe, the center runs a meal program for students that is sponsored by the church's Jubilee Ministries.























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