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e-News: August, 2009
Sound the trumpets and wake the chickens : Your coffee club orders as well as parish orders placed last spring were delivered this week - so pick up your delicious coffee at your church. If you want coffee and want it shipped for free - check with your Singing Rooster parish coordinator. Don't have a coordinator? Tag, you're it. NOW your parish can order coffee ANY time as long as your parish orders a minimum of 12 bags per shipment [that's how we afford free shipping to the parish]. If you don't live in the Milwaukee Episcopal Diocese and / or don't mind paying for shipping, order coffee online: www.haitiproject.org And most importantly : OVER $5 a bag goes back to Haiti: $2 to haitian coffee farmers and $3 to the Haiti Project. Back to School
The Haiti Project partners with St. Marc’s in Jeannette to make going to school a reality for over 600 children ages 3 and up. Education builds strong, self-sustaining communities. At this time of the year as you prepare your own children for school, consider sponsoring a child at St. Marc’s. You can learn much more about our sending a Haitian Child to school by visiting our website.
Paul Farmer's Organization: Save the date: Wednesday, March 3, 2010, for a Fundraiser / Speaker from Paul Farmer's organization, Partners in Health, 7:30 pm. More details later. |
A
Haitian Wedding
in Wisconsin
You gotta admire the problem solving skills of those who love Haiti and the [mostly] wonderful people living there. Case in point: what do you do when you're planning the wedding of your dreams and somebody threatens to kidnap the bride and groom and kill them? You hold the wedding in Wisconsin ... the next week. Problem solved.
Groom Norly Germain with Best Man, Dennis Higgs Just ask Susan Webster and Jeanie Dallia. Susan and Jeanie have been long-time Haiti Project supporters, and their families have watched a special young Haitian boy grow into a wonderful man. When Norly's and Anice's lives were threatened, the Haitian police recommended they leave the country immediately. His bride-to-be was heartbroken at not being able to get married in front of her family and friends, and she was filled with fear. Both bride and groom, fled the country in fear of their lives. When Jeanie and Susan heard their horrifying story, the did what they do best: they offered love, compassion and understanding. Then Jeanie -- who is affectionately called Norly's American mom -- did what any mother would do, she came to the rescue. A service was
organized, people
were invited,
a dress was bought,
food prepared,
tuxes rented,
cake made, Haitian
Rum punch served,
reception held,
joyous tears
shed!
The bride and groom end the evening with a joyful pontoon boat ride on Lake Monona. Yes, they're wearing winter coats [it was the coldest July on record!] The next time you hear the expression: never get between a cub and his mother, think Jeanie and Susan.
August, 2009 |
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