June 2010

The June Meeting began with two guest speakers from Crista Ministries, Tom and Jacinta. Tom gave the group a brief overview of Crista and it's 7 divisions, and Jacinta gave us an update on World Concern's Haiti relief efforts.


Jacinta indicated that World Concern has been on the ground in Haiti for over 30 years. She said the January earthquake had killed over 300,000 people and had left 1 million people homeless. Initial life saving measures have ended and they have entered the provisional rebuilding phase. World Concern is currently paying over 2000 local people to clear rubble from their own homes in preparation for rebuilding efforts.


World Concern has developed several home prototypes and have settled one one design as the most appropriate. That prototype will cost around $1200.00 each. We thanked Tom and Jacinta for their visit and the relief efforts in Haiti.


The group agreed that a future donation to the Haiti rebuilding effort was in order.