CLC Solidarity Drive for Haiti Earthquake Victims

31 January 2010
Thomas Merton’s Birthday

Dear CLC Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

Mindful of Haiti, CLC-USA's Apostolic Action Team (AAT) invites you to act as a national community in solidarity with the Haitian people. In concert with the unfolding conversations on Facebook* about the variety of ways people are proceeding in faithful work and mission with our Haitian brothers and sisters, this communication is to help facilitate common financial gifts. As individual members, local, and regional CLCommunities, our monies can be pooled for greatest impact.

All such designated funds will be directed as soon as possible to:
1. Jesuit Relief Services
2. Friends of the Orphans/ Haiti Project (Fr. Rick Frechette’s work, more info on webpage letter & on Facebook.)
3. Fonkoze/ Partners in Progress (more info on webpage letter & on Facebook).

We are blessed to have on-going relationships as CLC with these specific organizations, with some CLC members involvement over many years. In addition to the tangible care & compassion these resources represent to Haitians in need, support at this time would also be a realization of our DSSE model, a great encouragement for these CLC individuals of being "Sent" and “Supported” by the wider CLCommunity in this act of solidarity with Haiti through specific, targeted provision of resources at this perilous time.

Checks should be made out to:

CLC-USA/ Haiti
3601 Lindell Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63108

A pledge webpage has been set up to facilitate this communal giving: http://www.donghanh.org/main/register_HAITI.htm.
Please send in pledges as soon as possible within the next two weeks.

In order to distribute the funds as soon as possible, we ask that all checks for this Haiti Solidarity Drive be sent in by the end of February.

Peace and Much Love in Christ as together we seek to be Living our Hope,

Carol Gonzalez,
Chair, Apostolic Action Team, CLC-USA

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http://www.facebook.com/pages/CLC-USA/131069934383?ref=ts