(update, Sunday, 1.24.10 - 10.45 p.m.)

Sorry abut the lack of communication during the day but we were all pretty busy.

The Good Samaritan Rebuilding Fund Coordinators met at Old St. Andrew's today at noon to strategize about our next steps. We are putting together Team Andrew 2 to travel to Carrefour as soon as we can determine the best travel plan. Going to Santa Domingo, Dominican Republic is long and difficult. We're investigating other options. We actually need more medical volunteers who are ready to go. As of this moment we have two people. We would like two or three doctors and more nurses. If you are interested or know of anyone who might be, please contact me immediately.

We also worked on communication, logistical, and organizational structures. The next team, for example, will have a dedicated On the Ground Coordinator responsible for keeping track of expenses, supply needs, and in-country logistics. Jim Doucette from Bristol, CT will fill this role.

Thanks to Jackie & Sue O'Clair whose hospitality and lunch made our meeting easy.

When I arrived at Church this morning and opened the mail, I found a total of $7,800 from a wide variety of people and places, including St. Andrew's, Kent, and St. John's, Stamford. The outpouring of concern and desire to help is simply extraordinary. I spoke again in Church about being the Body of Christ in the world. There are many members of the body and each is related and intimately dependent upon the others. This is our connection to the Haitian people, our brothers and sisters.

This evening there was A Service of Remembrance at l'Eglise de l'Epiphanie & St. John's in Stamford. It was quite moving and the names of those relatives of Haitians in the parish who died were read aloud. Bishop James Curry presided.

I talked with Dave Desmarais tonight. He said the clinic was seeing well over 100 patients a day and one day they saw 165 Haitians. Their biggest need is for cold medicines, pain relief meds, diapers, diarrhea medicines, pedialyte, bacitracin, all items the logistics and supply folks are trying to acquire. They are also looking for some five gallon buckets with lids for purifying water. Jim Doucette will take these down. Mostly they are drinking bottled water.

Keep holding the center for the Haitian people and all of the relief workers. More tomorrow.