Haiti Disaster

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Haitian-Born Covenanter Coordinates USAID Relief

by covwebster – Feb 8, 2010

WASHINGTON, DC (February 8, 2010) – Former North Park University professor and Covenanter Robert Boncy, who led the school’s first mission trips to his native Haiti, is now helping coordinate the U.S. government’s recovery efforts in the decimated country, where he lost two relatives.

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Not the Same Old Grind: Coffee Entrepreneurs Help Others

by covwebster – Feb 8, 2010

BRANDON, SD (February 8, 2010) – Pat and Marge McClanahan started their coffee roasting business as a way to pay for their seminary education. That hasn’t worked out, but it is helping to fund an orphanage in Haiti as well as other mission work around the world.

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In Haiti during Quake, Covenanters Lend Hand at Orphanage

by covwebster – Feb 3, 2010

LUNENBERG, MA (February 3, 2010) – The bus in which Barbara “Bobbie” Curtis was riding was about to pull alongside the 10-foot-high cinder block wall surrounding the guesthouse where she and fellow mission team members were staying after spending a day helping at a Haitian orphanage.

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CWR Aid to Haiti Leads January’s Most-Read Stories

by covwebster – Feb 2, 2010

CHICAGO, IL (February 2, 2010) – Stories about the Evangelical Covenant Church’s response to the catastrophe in Haiti, the nomination of Efrem Smith to be the superintendent of the Pacific Southwest Conference, as well as the death of Keith C. Fullerton were the most-read on the denomination’s website in January.

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Physicians Must Be ‘Resourceful’ in Treating Haitians

by covwebster – Jan 29, 2010

BEAVERTON, OR (January 29, 2010) – Orthopedic surgeon Todd Ulmer says teams from World Relief International and Medical Teams International had to be “very resourceful” to obtain medical supplies in Haiti so that they could perform surgery and treat other patients.

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