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Help for Haiti Collection – This Sunday!

1 Comment 22 January 2010

Cross Point Family!

We are partnering with our friends from G.O. Ministries to get a supply run to Haiti.  If you are looking for a quick, practical way to help, THIS IS IT!

Here are the details:

  • All 3 Cross Point campuses will be collecting items from the list below THIS SUNDAY, January 24th
  • The Nashville Campus will continue collecting items from 9AM – 5PM Monday & Tuesday.  The last possible drop-off time is TUESDAY, January 26th at 5PM.

Surgical Supplies

  • External Fixators – suppliers – Stryker, Synthes, Smith and Nephew
  • Nails – Stryker, Synthes, Smith and nephew
  • Steiman Pins – same suplliers
  • Plates and Screws – Stryker, Synthes
  • Casting material – plaster or fiberglass-
  • Sterile gauze
  • Suture material – nylon – hundreds of packs
  • Scissors
  • Scalpels with blades
  • OR lights
  • Power saws and drills – are rechargeable – Stryker supplier
  • Anesthesia
  • Crutches
  • Dressings supplies
  • IVs ( Ringers Lactate, NACL, D5W, D50
  • IVs start Kits
  • Bandages
  • gauze
  • gloves
  • masks
  • scalpels

Needed Medical Supplies:

  • Casting supplies
  • Peroxide
  • Ace bandages
  • Bandages
  • gauze
  • gloves
  • masks
  • Scalpels
  • Adhesive tape
  • Antibiotic ointment
  • glucometers

Medicines—we can only accept unexpired medications in bulk containers

  • Regular insulin
  • Anti-diarrheals
  • Tylenol/acetaminophen
  • Ibuprofen
  • Antibiotics
  • Tetanus vaccine

Food

  • Bottled water
  • Baby Formula
  • Pedialyte or other pediatric electrolyte supplement
  • Canned meats and sardines
  • Canned pasta, already prepared
  • Protein bars
  • Peanut butter
  • Ensure bottled drinks

Supplies:

  • Tents (small and large)
  • Tarps
  • Blankets
  • Sheets
  • Rope
  • Candles
  • Flashlights/headlamps/batteries

Ryan Bult, our Missions Director, is heading up this project.  If you have any questions, you can direct them his way at ryan@crosspoint.tv.

If you are looking for a place to donate monetarily to the relief efforts in Haiti, we encourage you to consider Samaritan’s Purse.

Thank you so much for considering this!

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Jenni Catron is the Executive Director of Cross Point Church, a multi-site church in the Nashville, TN area.
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