Haiti Earthquake – Information and Donations

Early this fall many of you as individuals and groups "adopted" children attending the Village of Hope School which is in the countryside outside of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The magnitude 7.0 earthquake which struck on January 12 has left tens of thousands dead and hundreds of thousands homeless and injured. Officials for the Village of Hope School at the headquarters building in Port-au-Prince are attempting to determine the situation at the school which is about 15 miles away from them or about 25 miles from the epicenter of the earthquake. You can find out information on the earthquake damage as well as other background information from the Village of Hope website at www.lazarusprojecthaiti.org.

The Village of Hope is one of several ministries under the Lazarus Project of Haiti. We do know that several LCMS churches in the downtown area have been damaged or destroyed.

If you would like to give directly to the Village of Hope School, you may do so by sending a check to:

Village of Hope Inc.
c/o Advent Lutheran Church
300 East Yamato Road
Boca Raton, FL 33431

or visit www.foodforthepoor.org to donate by credit card.

You can also give in direct support of earthquake relief in Haiti to Lutheran World Relief at www.lwr.org or to Compassion International by clicking on the image on the right.

Also, Thrivent will match donations by its members $1 for each $2. See www.thrivent.com/helpinghaiti for details.

Please include the people of Haiti in your continuing prayers.