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
No comments:
Post a Comment