WESTSHORE UNITARIANS AT MPP IN HAITI

Another Cleveland area congregation with ties to Haiti is the Westshore Unitarian Universalist Church.  Like our group from Forest Hill Church, they also went to the Central Plateau to serve and learn in the company of the Mouvman Peasant Papaye (Papaye Peasant Movement, in English).  Readers of this blog may recall that our FHC team visited MPP in 2012 and saw one of the villages being developed with resources provided by the Presbyterian Church, USA.  The Unitarian Universalist College of Social Justice (UUSC) is also a resource partner of MPP's village development program and assists Unitarian congregations to make service learning trips to Haiti.  

Last month, Jeanette Nemcek and her husband Bob, a member of Westshore UUC, helped make a connection so that some of us from Forest Hill could attend a presentation at the WUUC.  Those of us who went were warmly welcomed and included in the discussion.

Thanks to Rev. Kathleen Rolenz and Intern Minister, Matthew McHale, their story can be shared in their own words.  Here is Matthew describing MPP and its work.  Below are links to blog postings by Rev. Rolenz describing things they saw and did.


How Was Haiti?

The Town Where Nobody Lives

Power To The Peasant People

Unfinished Business

The Women Of Haiti

We look forward to getting together again soon with our friends at Westshore UUC and others in the Cleveland area with Haiti in their hearts.

--kjl

PARTNERS IN HEALTH AND IN TRANSFORMATION

In a follow-up to the previous blog posting on the new book by Paul Farmer and Gustavo Gutierrez, here is an article that reports on liberating transformation being done by Partners In Health in Haiti.  The author, Stephanie Garry, a news reporter who now works for Partners In Health, describes again how Liberation Theology works in practice.  

Read it here.

New hospital in Haiti proves that aid done right can change lives

You can read more about the hospital here and here (video).

For more on its long-term impact on health in Haiti, read this.  

IN THE COMPANY OF THE POOR

I am posting this video of a discussion by Dr. Paul Farmer and Fr. Gustavo Gutierrez when they launched their book, In The Company Of The Poor, in November, 2013.  It is a book I will be reading right away.  I invite you to join in the reading.

In The Company Of The Poor the video

In The Company Of The Poor  book review


--kjl