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Last week we received an e-mail from the moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Australia encouraging us to partner with the Presbyterian Church in America for help to Haiti.
Click the read more below to read a copy of the letter from Robert Benn.
Also here aresome links to the Presbyterian Church of Australia webpage where you can make donations.
The website of the Presbyterian Church in America is http://www.pca-mna.org/
Click here for a direct link to their donation section for Haiti.
Yesterday I indicated to you that I would offer advice to the church in respect to helping the people of Haiti. Since then I have been speaking to the Clerk of the GAA Dr Paul Logan, who has concurred in sending out this letter of information to you. During the past 2 days, I have been in email and phone communication with the Presbyterian Church in America (in the past, we have many points of contact with this church, and now with the present and immediate past-moderator, and the department which is in charge of responding to disaster situations). The MNA (Mission to North America) Disaster Response Director is sending an assessing team to Port au Prince on 26th January for a week, to meet with the two pastors of the Presbyterian Church in America who are resident and ministering there, and will with these men on site determine the best ways to help. The two locals are Pastor Dony St. Germain, a Haitian national and MNA staff member who heads up the outreach to Haiti and Pastor Brian Kelso, another MNA staff member, who is assisting with this effort. Sherry Lanier of MNA Disaster Response Office writes: "We would truly appreciate your partnership with us . . as the needs are so great. In regards to funds that are received, MNA Disaster Response charges no fees for any services rendered, which means that 100% of all funds received go directly to the designated area, in this case Haiti . . we are in this for the long haul." PCA's MNA Disaster Response Office have set up a website through which you will be given plenty of information (www.pca-mna.org) . . . and within that website there is a site for Online Contributions: https://processor.pcanet.org/mna/donationsII/donation.cfm?MinistryTypeID=48 I made a point of sending off a contribution using this site, and received back immediate confirmation of reception of the donation, and then another from a representative in the Disaster Response office to tell me that the monies had been received. You will notice in the Online Contributions form that you need to identify the State and Zip. Just disregard that, and put your Australian address in the boxes immediately above the 'State' one, and it will get through. We are aware that some of you may have contributed through the likes of World Vision or Red Cross. That's good. Thank you. But here is another way to contribute, and that through a closely linked Presbyterian Church with which we are continuing to forge close links. I'm glad last year's moderator Dr Ligon Duncan stated, "The PCAustralia is more like us, or we are more like them, than any other world presbyterian body." And I'm glad that we have received such a warm reception from this Presbyterian Church "on the spot" to our partnering with them in serving the saints of God. Remember over 90% of the people of Haiti identify themselves as Christians. Thank you dear ministers of our church for passing on this information, and for encouraging our people to "care for widows and orphans", etc. Yours because His, Robert Benn Moderator General of the PCA
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