Our priest gently escaped talking too much about the guy at the banquet who didn’t have a wedding garment and was tied up and cast into the outer darkness where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth. After a brief sermon, we had a presentation and slide show of our work in Haiti.
We had been linked to a parish in the mountain and were supporting their school. Then there was the earthquake which destroyed the school. The church was also damaged. So we are working with Finnaid to rebuild the school. They are rebuilding the school and we bought the land. We are now funding the teachers, furnishing the school, and providing what the school needs. It going to be much grander than what they had before. Twelve, count them, twelve classrooms and three hundred-some students. Wonderful work of our parish. I am proud of it.
Our parishioners go to Haiti with some folk from a parish in Minnesota. Twice a year they go as a medical mission. We buy drugs and supplies. This time, in three days they saw over six hundred people.
Wonderful work.