Faith and Action friends, including supporters of our ally, Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt, gave over $28,000 in record time to help the people of Haiti. Those funds are now in motion, benefitting a long-established clinic with two locations in Haiti, one very near the epicenter of the earthquake. Funds have also been provided to a surgeon from Haiti who now makes his home in the United States and practices at an award-winning medical center in Hershey, Pennsylvania. He is currently in Haiti performing emergency surgeries on victims. More funds have been allocated for one or more church groups staged to travel to Haiti as soon as runways open for a chartered flight to land. Whichever groups go first will receive remaining funds for supplies. Because workers on the ground in Haiti are concerned for their own and their patients’ safety, we are withholding the names of funding recipients until threats have passed and adequate security is in place.

The Faith and Action ministry management team is operating on an internal policy directing 100% of all Haiti-related contributions be forwarded to groups providing immediate care for earthquake survivors. That means the regular Faith and Action operating budget will pay all fees, expenses and administrative overhead incurred in the processing of relief gifts. An independent certified public accountant is currently auditing the Faith and Action Haiti Relief Fund. The completed audit will be posted to our website as soon as it is available. Thank you to one and all who provided so generously for this effort.