We are a multitalented team leaving for Haiti tomorrow, full of anticipation but not really knowing what to expect. I personally have been desiring to use my professional skills (PT) internationally for some time, ever since visiting a Mercy Ship docked in Boston several years ago. I have heard that there is a need for rehab skills there, but also have heard from colleagues who have gone that it is easy to feel overwhelmed when there is such need in front of you. My hopes are summed up in the prayer of St Francis that was sung this morning at PSC:

Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace;

where there is hatred let me sow love;

where there is injury, pardon;

where there is doubt, faith;

where there is despair, hope;

where there is darkness, light;

and where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console;
to be understood, as to understand;
to be loved, as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

-St. Francis of Assisi

Thank you to all who are sending us

Anna Schroepfer