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Samaritan's Purse - The Aftercare
An e-mail letter from Samaritan's Purse Canada, received last week-
Dear M,
Although you have been back from Haiti for a number of weeks now, we just wanted to send you another email to thank you again for serving with Samaritan’s Purse in our medical clinics. I hope that you were blessed and encouraged as you worked alongside people from many backgrounds in our clinics and that you felt the Lord’s presence with you as you worked so hard. The staff based here in Calgary have certainly been praying for each of our volunteers, for the team in Haiti, and for the Haitian people. Although a short email cannot appropriately express our gratitude for your willingness to use the gifts and skills the Lord has given you to serve in this way, I still wanted to send you this message to say ‘thank you’ personally.
At Samaritan’s Purse, we recognize that everyone processes the intensity of an experience such as your time Haiti differently. We would like to give you the opportunity to connect with one of our team members, Becky Matchullis, who has a background in nursing and who has travelled to Haiti over the past year to support and encourage our Samaritan’s Purse team on the ground there. I have included a brief bio below and she will follow up with you over the next week or so. This may be a brief conversation, just sharing a few highlights and challenges of your time in Haiti, or it may be longer – it is up to you – and we just wanted to provide you with support as you have returned home and jumped back into your life here in Canada.
Well acquainted with life changes, cross cultural adaptation and international transitions, Becky was raised in Malaysia, Hong Kong and Canada, where she attended boarding, international and public schools. She spent 6 years working as a nurse with critically ill patients and their families in ICU. She has lived in Indonesia, Cambodia, eastern and western Canada as an adult. Becky is a member of the Samaritan’s Purse Spiritual Care Team and often offers training and debriefing to field staff and volunteers who have served with Samaritan’s Purse Canada.
Thank you again for serving with Samaritan’s Purse and may the Lord richly bless you for your willingness to have done so!
Kindly,
C
Dear M,
Although you have been back from Haiti for a number of weeks now, we just wanted to send you another email to thank you again for serving with Samaritan’s Purse in our medical clinics. I hope that you were blessed and encouraged as you worked alongside people from many backgrounds in our clinics and that you felt the Lord’s presence with you as you worked so hard. The staff based here in Calgary have certainly been praying for each of our volunteers, for the team in Haiti, and for the Haitian people. Although a short email cannot appropriately express our gratitude for your willingness to use the gifts and skills the Lord has given you to serve in this way, I still wanted to send you this message to say ‘thank you’ personally.
At Samaritan’s Purse, we recognize that everyone processes the intensity of an experience such as your time Haiti differently. We would like to give you the opportunity to connect with one of our team members, Becky Matchullis, who has a background in nursing and who has travelled to Haiti over the past year to support and encourage our Samaritan’s Purse team on the ground there. I have included a brief bio below and she will follow up with you over the next week or so. This may be a brief conversation, just sharing a few highlights and challenges of your time in Haiti, or it may be longer – it is up to you – and we just wanted to provide you with support as you have returned home and jumped back into your life here in Canada.
Well acquainted with life changes, cross cultural adaptation and international transitions, Becky was raised in Malaysia, Hong Kong and Canada, where she attended boarding, international and public schools. She spent 6 years working as a nurse with critically ill patients and their families in ICU. She has lived in Indonesia, Cambodia, eastern and western Canada as an adult. Becky is a member of the Samaritan’s Purse Spiritual Care Team and often offers training and debriefing to field staff and volunteers who have served with Samaritan’s Purse Canada.
Thank you again for serving with Samaritan’s Purse and may the Lord richly bless you for your willingness to have done so!
Kindly,
C
So many disasters
Hi all,
A bit of a hiatus in the blog. Haiti was such a great experience, and an intense one as you have read.
Haiti still needs the world's support. I have heard through a few of my Haitian contacts that the Samaritan's purse Cholera Treatment centres are still operating, last patient census numbers from 10-40 patients each day. So pretty stable from when I as there serving. Time will tell when the rainy season comes to Haiti if cholera will rise again. Hoping that the water treatment systems and public education that Samaritan's Purse and other NGO's have put in place will keep the numbers down.
The world is seeing more than its share of misery..... The earthquake in New Zealand levelling Christchurch, the revolution in Egypt and other middle eastern countries. Libya, and of course the catastrophe in Japan. It is hard to where God would have you turn your attention and hand.
My daughter Robin and I have just finished watching Schindlers List - a remarkable and encouraging story about the difference one person can make. While onbviously the holocast in World War II was not a natural disaster, it is my hope that we become aware of the humanitarian disasters taking place around the globe, we take it to heart that one person, a regular person, can make a difference. And many regular people doing something can make a huge difference.
As Samaritan's Purse says: Pray. Give. Get Involved.
My next travel, unless God puts another mission in my path, will be to Scotland and maybe a side trip to Ireland. I am hoping to go the last week in April and first week in May. But you never know...last time I had the urge to go to Scotland (in January) I ended up in Haiti!!
A bit of a hiatus in the blog. Haiti was such a great experience, and an intense one as you have read.
Haiti still needs the world's support. I have heard through a few of my Haitian contacts that the Samaritan's purse Cholera Treatment centres are still operating, last patient census numbers from 10-40 patients each day. So pretty stable from when I as there serving. Time will tell when the rainy season comes to Haiti if cholera will rise again. Hoping that the water treatment systems and public education that Samaritan's Purse and other NGO's have put in place will keep the numbers down.
The world is seeing more than its share of misery..... The earthquake in New Zealand levelling Christchurch, the revolution in Egypt and other middle eastern countries. Libya, and of course the catastrophe in Japan. It is hard to where God would have you turn your attention and hand.
My daughter Robin and I have just finished watching Schindlers List - a remarkable and encouraging story about the difference one person can make. While onbviously the holocast in World War II was not a natural disaster, it is my hope that we become aware of the humanitarian disasters taking place around the globe, we take it to heart that one person, a regular person, can make a difference. And many regular people doing something can make a huge difference.
As Samaritan's Purse says: Pray. Give. Get Involved.
My next travel, unless God puts another mission in my path, will be to Scotland and maybe a side trip to Ireland. I am hoping to go the last week in April and first week in May. But you never know...last time I had the urge to go to Scotland (in January) I ended up in Haiti!!
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