Presbyterian Mission Agency haiti earthquake Archives

Put on the whole armor of God

Posted August 17th, 2021

Of late, the hosts of Between Two Pulpits, Special Offerings’ Bryce Wiebe and Lauren Rogers, have asked their guest to discuss what the coming Sunday’s sermon might look like if they were taking to the pulpit.

PDA official offers a briefing on the circumstances in earthquake-stricken Haiti

Posted August 16th, 2021

The Rev. Edwin González-Castillo said Monday he knows the Haitian people will overcome the most recent calamity to befall them, Saturday’s 7.2-magnitude earthquake that has killed at least 1,300 people to date, injured thousands and left many tens of thousands without adequate shelter, food, water and access to health care.

Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) agencies minister to hard-hit Haiti

Posted August 15th, 2021

Presbyterian Disaster Assistance and Presbyterian World Mission have been in contact with their partners in Haiti following Saturday morning’s 7.2-magnitude earthquake and the aftershocks that have followed.

Minute for Mission: Presbyterian Federal Chaplaincies

Posted January 25th, 2021

Standing together and singing hymns while your ship sinks into the waves, taking you to your certain death, is not normal behavior. And yet the Four Chaplains did exactly this on Feb. 3, 1943. Through their sacrifice, others were spared and many more have been inspired. Perhaps as they considered their actions that frigid night, they had in mind the words of Paul from our lectionary today, “I do it all for the sake of the gospel, so that I may share in its blessings.”

PDA recovery efforts help Haitians thrive in new communities

Posted March 12th, 2019

The 2010 earthquake that devastated Haiti and changed it forever also set Andral Estes’s life on a radically different course.