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Presque Isle Seventh Day Adventist Church

GYC LIVE Streaming!!!

GYC LIVE Streaming!!! We are excited to announce that we are able to bring GYC to those who are not able to attend! This year, GYC will be streaming LIVE from our website each main meeting along with one seminar on the web, our "webinar."

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The board is also looking for individuals who would like to be Bible workers to work in the Fort Kent area. Please let the pastor know if you are available to provide this important and valueable service.

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Haiti Relief Project

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My good friend Dr. Scott Nelson a pediatric orthopedic surgeon is on the ground and already working in Port-au-Prince Haiti (PaP). Within moments after the shaking stopped Scott went to work trying to secure a means of transportation for him and his surgical team to get from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic to PaP. I've been on the phone with both him and his wife Marni no less than 20 times and have lost count of the emails in the last 48 hours as we have tried to establish the condition of the SDA hospital and how LLU could support him in PaP.

We (LLU) received post quake satellite imagery late yesterday which was acquired earlier in the day. After analysis of the imagery it appeared that the SDA facilities survived and were already functioning as a trauma center. Based on that information Scott chartered a private plane to fly him and his team to PaP. Early this morning (1/14) Scott called to say that the PaP airport had been closed to incoming flights but that there was still a chance of getting in and he was going to try. Around noon, while in a Haiti response meeting with Dr. Hart and other LLU VP's my cell rang, it was Scott, in the plane, ready to take off, still not knowing if he would be able to land in PaP. Around 3:30PM I got a call from Marni, the pilot had called her to tell her that they had made it and Scott and team were there and on their way to the hospital.

I have just received the following update from Scott:

Hello All,

We were fortunately able to make a landing after circling PAP airport for one hour. They gave our pilot 3 minutes of time to stay on the ground. We were met by a team of people who were waiting for our plane and had good vehicles to take us to assess a couple of hospitals. Most of our equipment was placed on another plane which did not make it today. We found parking lots full of fractures, open wounds, traumatic amputations. The damages are every bit as bad as seen on CNN. Dead bodies are laying on the sidewalks in many places, some have been collected by trucks.

The first hospital we visited was not equipped to do orthopaedic surgery even under normal conditions. We then went to Hopital du la Communitie Haitien a 75 bed community hospital in Freres near Delma. There are many orthopaedic cases filling the parking lot and patio as everyone is too scared to be inside a building. One 3 year old child was about to get his arm amputated by an opthamologist and she was relieved to turn the case over to me. The family was even more relieved to know that we could save the arm. Tomorrow we will do further surgery on him and others. The hospital is not damaged and they have power and running water available. There are 2 OR's that are quite nice. We were not able to visit Hopital Adventiste D'Haiti, but we will try to assess the situation there tomorrow as well as some other locations. We plan to begin operating at the Hopital du la Communitie tomorrow when our equipment arrives. Meantime we will try to team up with some of the rescue teams and stay in touch with the media.

To all those interested volunteers who want to pack goods and work - I do not yet have much of a needs list, but will say that there are orthopaedic injuries of all types and do not hesitate to mobilize your resources. I am trying to identify several places with at least some minimal infrastructure where we can safely treat people. More soon.

We are being well taken care of.

Scott

Clearly God's hand has been with Scott to get him where he is. Scott has operated in Haiti more than 20 times over the past 5 years and I believe there are very few people better suited to the task he has before him. Clearly he is already saving limbs and lives. Please pray for Scott's continued success and safety and please consider the links below. I will try to keep you up to date as Scott sends updates.

Here are two links where donations can be made to support Scott:

Cure International is the organization Scott has worked for the last 5 years in the Dominican and stepped in to provide him initial funding simply to get to Haiti and set up shop. Scott committed a significant amount of his own money to charter the plane.

Cure blog: http://blog.helpcurenow.org/blog/

Cure Haiti donation page (short link): http://tinyurl.com/yb8eklb

Long term funding of the SDA hospital in Port-au-Prince Haiti where Scott is likely to spend the next few months. LLU has setup a special fund specifically to support the hospital/Scott.

http://www.llu.edu/news/articles/2010/haiti.page

I will be donating to both of these funds and encourage you to do the same if possible. Both funds are worthy causes and will directly support the ongoing relief efforts. Thanks,

Andrew

Loma Linda University responds to the earthquake in Haiti

Loma Linda University continues to monitor the unfolding rescue and recovery efforts in Haiti. We are building on longstanding relationships with the country:

Loma Linda University trained 40 public health professionals in Haiti in the 1980s.

In 2004, after the catastrophic floods in Haiti, Loma Linda University trained a 50-member Haitian national Behavioral Health Trauma Team. The team is currently at work counseling in the relief efforts.

The Hopital Adventiste d’Haiti in Port-au-Prince, a 70-bed facility built in 1978, is functional after the earthquake and already serving as a clinical center for the country. Its services were strengthened by joining Adventist Health International in 2003, and being “adopted” three years ago by the Loma Linda University School of Medicine Class of 2010 as their mission project.

Universite Adventiste d’Haiti, located next to the hospital, has sustained some physical damage, but parts of the campus are being used as a staging ground for various relief efforts.

Scott Nelson, M.D., one of our Loma Linda University graduates and an orthopedic surgeon based in the Dominican Republic, arrived in Port-au-Prince on January 14 with a surgical team to provide orthopedic services at the Adventist hospital. We expect to maintain communication with Dr. Nelson in order to obtain accurate and timely information.

A number of Loma Linda University graduates and other volunteers have expressed interest in traveling to Haiti to help. We are grateful for such expressions of willingness to help.. We will continue to monitor the situation closely and will update everyone through the University website: www.llu.edu. If additional health care providers are needed at the Adventist hospital in Port-au-Prince, that information will be made available on the website.

Loma Linda University has established a fund to facilitate donations to the Hopital Adventiste d’Haiti. The hospital is in need of many resources in order to function around-the-clock during this critical period. Donations may be made as follows:

Online: www.llu.edu

Telephone: 909–558–5010

Mail checks:

Loma Linda University – Haiti Earthquake

Office of Philanthropy

24519 Redlands Boulevard, Suite A

Loma Linda, CA 92354

Loma Linda wishes to thank all who are taking time to remember in prayer the desperate needs of the people of Haiti. We hope that many will be motivated to provide the means through which needed health care can be sustained at this time.

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Presque Isle S.D.A. Church - Aroostook County Outreach Vision

Over the past six months the chruch board has met several times to consider plans to reach out to the communities in Aroostook County where we have previously had an organized presence. The commis-sion in the Word is to share Him and the blessed hope which is the basis of the Word.

At a church board meeting held on April 16th, it was decided that our next emphasis would be in the St. John Valley. It was also voted to invited Dennis and Lisa Bange to visit our district for an intitial interview, which they did on the weekend of April 24th. Dennis is wrapping up a 2 1/2-year assignment as a Bible Worker in the Barre, Vermont district. Due to funding challenges in Barre the church there could not afford to retain the Bange's. Sunday afternoon on April 25th, Dennis and List met with the Elders and several other church members for an intitial interview. We shared our mutual visions and came away from this

Bible Worker Commitment

I support the idea of having bible worker to assist us in this

district. I am willing to work with this individual to spread the

gospel in any way I can. I am also willing to give financial

support. I (we) will pledge $ ____________ each month to

this project. I will also pledge prayer support for this project

and it's ongoing ministry.

Date: _____________ Signed: _______________________

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Presque Isle SDA Church

56 Park Street

Presque Isle, ME 04769

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