Haiti Connection 2007
Program & Schedule of Events

Some speakers and topics will be added and/or modified between now and the Conference. Details will be updated on this site.

Monday, April 23, 2007

Registration & Booth Displays
1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Reception
6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Dinner
7:00 p.m.
Welcome: The Rt. Rev. Zache Duracin
Speaker: Dr. Mitch Mutter

Tuesday, April 24, 2007      Moderator Jerry Harner

Breakfast
7:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m.

Prayers
8:15 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.

Greetings – The Rt. Rev. Leopold Frade, Bishop, Episcopal Diocese of Southeast Florida
8:30 a.m. to 8:45 a.m.

Health Care in Haiti Panel Presentations – Moderator: Dr. Gretchen Berggen
8:45 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.

  1. Maison de Naissance – Dr. Cindy Obenhaus, R.N.
  2. Albert Schweitzer Hospital – Jennifer Grant
  3. Cange – Jayne Crisp
  4. Nursing School – Dean Hilda Alcindor
  5. St. Vincent’s Center – The Rev. Fritz Desire, The Rev. Bill Squire
  6. Hopital Ste Croix – The Rev. Jean Jacques Deravil
  7. Nutrition Program – Dr. Mitch Mutter

Break
10:15 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.

Health Care Panel Discussion – Moderator: Dr. Gretchen Berggen
10:30 to 11:15 a.m.

Focus Session - Meetings with Individual Health Care Institutions
11:15 a.m. to 12 noon

Lunch
12 noon to 1:30 p.m.

Working and Staying Safe in Haiti – Frazier Meade (travel in the north); Joyce Pipkin (transportation) MAF; Jayne Crisp (protocol)
1:30 p.m. to 2:15 p.m.

Institutional Church Involvement Panel Presentations
2:15 p.m. to 3:30 pm.

  1. Presbyterian Church USA (PCUSA) – Pix Mahler
  2. Episcopal Relief and Development (ERD) – Abagail Nelson
  3. Church World Service (CWS) – Don Tatlock
  4. Caribbean Council of Churches – Gerard Granado

Break
3:30 p.m. to 3:45 p.m.

Focus Session
3:45 p.m. to 4:20 p.m. and 4:25 p.m. to 5 p.m.

  1. PCUSA – Pix Mahler
  2. ERD – Abagail Nelson, Matthew St. John, The Rev. Frantz Cole
  3. CWS – Don Tatlock
  4. Partnership Program – The Rev. Kesner Ajax
  5. Companion Diocese Relationships – Rt. Rev. Zache Duracin
  6. MAF – Joyce Pipkin
  7. Water – Jack Vaughn, Jerry Harner

Informal Meetings

Dinner in the hotel restaurant or on your own

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Breakfast
7:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m.

Prayers
8:15 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.

Primary Education in Haiti Panel Presentations – Moderator: Don Doucette
8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.

  1. Holy Trinity, Port-au-Prince – The Rev. Fernande Pierre-Louis
  2. St. Marc, Bois Blanc – Charles Gearing
  3. St. Andre’s, Hinche – Rev. Wallin DeCamps, Mel Blevens, Barbara Blevens
  4. St. Paul, Petit-Trou-de-Nippes – The Rev. Kesner Gracia
  5. St. Sauveur, Cayes – The Rev. Colbert Estil

Break
9:30 a.m. to 9:45 a.m.

Secondary Education in Haiti Panel Presentations – Moderator: Don Doucette 9:45 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

  1. Bishop Tharp Institute – The Rev. Kesner Ajax
  2. Holy Trinity Trade School – The Rev. Tancrel Diegue
  3. Haiti Episcopal University – Lucien Bernard
  4. College St. Pierre – The Rev. Rigal Lucas
  5. Trade School & Agricultural School, Cap-Hatien – The Rev. Noe Bernier

Closing Plenary – Moderator – Jerry Harner
11:00 a.m. to 12 noon
Panel Discussion, Q&A – Rt. Rev. Zache Duracin, Rt. Rev. Roger White, Rev. Kesner Ajax

Closing Eucharist – Rt. Rev. Zache Duracin, Celebrant and Preacher
12 noon to 1:00 p.m.

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