Seventy percent of church buildings were considered a total loss. Diocesan-run schools, clinics and hospitals

that served over 100,000 Episcopalians, as well as countless community members, were wiped out in thirty-five seconds. (Episcopal Church Foundation, Rebuild Our Church in Haiti - para. #2, January, 2012)

Brick by brick, one person, parish, one diocese at a time and together; Episcopalians are rebuilding Trinity Cathedral in Port Au Prince, the spiritual and liturgical heart of Haitian Episcopalians. We can and should help.

Here's a way for us to protest the wearisome and perhaps forgotten reconstruction work going on in Haiti. We can be living as well as physical bricks in the walls of Trinity Cathedral.  

Each brick costs only $10.00, yet what hope and joy - when combined with more bricks -- will it bring to the lives of our Episcopalian sisters and brothers in Christ in that place.  

I'd like for St. James to set a goal of providing 100 bricks to the cause by the time of our Celebration for New Ministry (Feb. 18th). It would be great to give a $1000.00 check to Bishop Breidenthal knowing that we will have contributed only 1/90th of the diocese's goal for the cathedral project but will have shared some of the treasures we have in our parish through living and solid bricks of our Christian love. 

Please let me know if you are willing to pledge towards this project, give online, (make sure to note that you're participating in St James' 100 brick building gift), or offer a special offering (write Haiti in the memo line of a check or on the outside of an envelope, during one of the upcoming Sunday worship services).

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Click here to check in on how the Diocese of Southern Ohio is doing on reaching its goal of re-building the Church in Haiti. 

Thanks for everything you do and offer what you possess here at St. James.