After a year and a half of emails, Zoom calls and COVID "rain checks," we celebrate hosting our friends and ministry partners from Pine Ridge Reconciliation Center as well as The Haitian Timoun Foundation next month! We hope you are able to be present to visit with our partners and learn more about their ministries.

Our first guest, Pastor Dan Johnson, is the current Executive Director of the Pine Ridge Reconciliation Center. Pastor Dan will join us for Wednesdays at the Well, including a special presentation during education hour to learn about Pine Ridge and the ministries happening there.

For the evening, we are excited to be joined by HTF’s In-Country Director, Luckner Fond-Rose, affectionately known to many as Maya. Maya has been HTF's in-country director since 2015 and is responsible for much of the operation and partner development in Haiti.

Maya will be accompanied by Daphnée Charles, a Development Officer who is very engaged in the Haitian community. She made the list of the Fondation Lorquet pour une Nouvelle Haiti in 2017 as one of the top 10 most influential women in Haiti.

Also in attendance will be Danette Miller, the Executive Director of HTF. Danette has served in this role since October 2020.

All of our HTF friends in Haiti are fine following the earthquake on August 14, but many have extended family and friends who have lost lives and property. HTF has established an earthquake relief fund that will be used to help those affected. The immediate needs will be water, food, personal care products, and first-aid items.

After the 2010 earthquake, the US Peace Corps named HTF as one of the five grassroots organizations best positioned to strategically respond and to be great stewards of the resources given.

If you would like to support the emergency response to the earthquake, make a check payable to Sheridan Lutheran Church, notating "Haiti Earthquake," or give online to Missions and write "Haiti Earthquake" in the memo. We will send our donations to the Haitian Timoun Foundation. Maya Fondrose, Haiti in-country director of HTF, and other friends will then get to work. Prayers are appreciated!

This September and October, we will be collecting personal care & baby kits for Lutheran World Relief in the donation bins in the Great Hall. Item donations are needed by October 24.

Did you know that successful developing nations that show markers for working for the common good of all people have one common factor? That factor is education - especially when girls are educated! We pray for and remember our ministry partners across the globe who work diligently for their education. September's Noisy Offering will go to benefit school scholarships for children in Tanzania and Haiti.