(update, Saturday, 1.23.10 - 3.20 p.m.)

Things are moving very fast again. Luc & Danelie report that the clinic is almost out of supplies. After trying to contact the UN and Red Cross, we found there are mountains of red tape and paper work to get supplies from them. We are trying to get a letter from Bishop Duracin stating the need for supplies is on an urgent basis.

So, if we can't get help in country, we'll do it ourselves. Accordingly, we're now working to staff Team Andrew 2 and collect supplies with a target to have them in country on Tuesday or Wednesday. This will be a massive undertaking and the Good Samaritan Rebuilding Coordinators will need lots of help. Immediately after we get Team Andrew 2 in country we'll undertake a resupply mission aimed toward the end of the week. If we set up a clinic, we owe it to the people in the community to serve them.

We hear that a Doctor Evelyn Archer is also now in Carrefour and there is the possibility that Doctors Without Borders may arrive soon. That would be great because maybe then we could piggy-back with them in the supply chain.

Alison Chaltas, from Stamford, CT sent me an email today. Here is some of it: "Let me start by complimenting you on the amazing job you and your parish are doing in coordinating support for relief efforts in Carrefour. I'm a friend of the Schlegels and senior warden at St. John's Stamford and have been trying hard to rally my neighbors and friends in and beyond St. John's to contribute.

I'm absolutely stunned by the positive response and people's desire to give locally. This morning I received a call from the president of our neighborhood association who was inspired by our e-fundraising effort and wants to make a push to our 2000 home area of town to rally behind a Haitian cause or two. He'd like that to be the medical relief efforts in Carrefour."

Please share this with others. We continue to urgently need money to support our efforts. The cost of medical supplies, transport, and water, food, etc. in Carrefour is huge. Thanks to all who have sent checks. If you want to contribute to the Good Samaritan Rebuilding Fund, send a check with Haiti on the memo line to Old St. Andrew's Church, 59 Tariffville Rd., Bloomfield, CT 06002.