Parish Twinning - Haiti
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Fair Trade Coffee Sales
Coffee sales are now online due to the pandemic. Please click here to purchase fair trade coffee, tea, and chocolates. All profits go to support our twinned parish, Notre Dame d’Altagrace in Cap Haitien, Haiti. Volunteers are needed to help with sales and delivery.
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Volunteers Needed for Coffee Sales to Benefit Haiti
Construction at Notre Dame d'Altagrace
Construction has begun on a new bathroom complex for the parish and school. This complex replaces the outhouses which posed a major health hazard. Your continued support of our Haiti ministry made this possible. Thank you!
Father Balnave Visits Saint Peter's!
Father Balnave, pastor of our twin parish Notre Dame d'Altagrace in Cap Haitien, Haiti, recently visited Saint Peter's. He celebrated Mass with students from Saint Peter School. We are so happy he was able to come and celebrate our special friendship.
Visit to Haiti - March 2022
Fr. Gary and parishioners Peter Sloan and Annie Quast recently visited our twin parish in Haiti. See their video update below.
Haiti Ministry Update
Haiti had a harrowing summer. It was wracked by two hurricanes (Isaias in July and Laura—which took 30 Haitians’ lives—in August). In addition, COVID-19 spiked from 100 cases early in the epidemic to more than 2,600 cases and 50 deaths in less than a month. By the end of August, the official number of reported cases was nearly 8,600. Various organizations—WHO, USAID, UNICEF, the World Bank—have identified Haiti as one of its priority countries for a community-health initiative.
Not surprisingly, COVID has grounded Archangel Airborne’s mission trips to Cap Haitien and our twin parish Notre Dame D’Altagrace. But the work continues as our Haitian partners see patients and distribute masks and hand sanitizer: a sincere thank-you goes to Dr. Myrlande and Nurse Josette for their untiring efforts to serve the families of Cap Haitien. And St. Peter’s contributions continue to support these efforts.
This fall Flavio Pierre, who serves as interpreter during the U.S. team’s visits, will study at the University of Notre Dame in Cap Haitien with tuition supported in part by our donations. The son of Notre Dame D’Altagrace’s school principal, Flavio will develop leadership skills that will help our twin parish and its people for years to come.
Our donations have also helped Archangel Airborne place deposits on two “Docs in a Box,” shipping containers converted into medical clinics. Each box will provide a walk-out treatment area with two beds, a lab testing area, a reception and patient-intake area, an electrical system, capacity for water needs, and solar capabilities. An ingenious solution to the problem of providing sustainable and securable medical facilities, “Boxes” have been deployed to disaster sites and to impoverished or rural areas and countries like Ghana and Kenya (see www.primarymobilemed.com for more information).
Once again, we at St. Peter’s can help. Each “Box” costs about $45,000, and Archangel Airborne has raised enough money for one. Over the next three weeks, we will be collecting your donations to help defray the cost of the other. Mail checks to the rectory or drop in the collection basket after Sunday Mass; make checks payable to St. Peter's Church, with "Haiti" in the memo line. Click here to use FaithDirect for your donation.