I’ve recently read of a Celtic concept of “thin places”, that is, where you can see God on earth. Haiti is one of those thin places. The upcoming pilgrimage will allow our team members to experience this thin place.
As Christ Church, Norcross and St. John's, Minneapolis, walk in partnership with our brothers and sisters at our partnership churches St. Joseph’s and St. Phillippe and St. Jacques, our team has turned into a true partnership. Christ Church will be represented by my son Scott’s girlfriend, Jessica Brewer, and her roommate Callan Rowley, both of whom are applying to graduate school to become physician assistants, and me (lawyer serving as pharmacist). My doctor friend Bob Rosenthal from DC, who went with us last year, will be joining us again. Terry and Stevie Shively, a dentist friend from Iowa and his wife, will be joining us for the first time to provide restorative dental services. Terry (now known as TR to avoid confusion with me) will work with our Haitian dentist Emmanual and will also talk with the hospital about establishing a dental clinic there. From St. John's, we have Dr. Dianne Pizey, pediatrician extraordinaire and our medical team leader, as well as Dr. Kathie Culhane-Pera, who was with Dianne and me on the trip just after the quake, and a registered nurse Cynthia Miller, who specializes in pain management. Dr. Alex Lebron, the Haitian doctor, who has worked with us the last couple trips, several Haitian nursing students, and our translators round out the team. As always, Pere Kerwin Delicat will be with us every step of the way.
There are many of you who have not been to Haiti, and perhaps never will; however, you contribute in other ways to make our partnership a successful one – donating money, as well as medicine, vitamins, soap, and other items for us to take, sewing the dresses for the girls and bags which our patients treasure for their medicines, working hard to ensure the success of our parish fundraisers, and most importantly, holding our Haitian brothers and sisters in prayer. Prayer sustains us and those we serve.
We hope that you will be inspired to help in anyway that you can.
Thank you for your support. Terry Franzen
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