The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship is launching its coordinated effort to supply the needs of Haiti. Steve and Nancy James are working to meet the immediate physical needs of the injured, and they need supplies. Below is a list of supplies that we are now asking you and your church to collect IMMEDIATELY. Below the list will be instructions as to where to send.
The following list of needed medical supplies has been reviewed and approved by nurse Nancy James, wife of Steven James, M.D. (pictured left), CBF's only medical missionaries in Haiti.
MEDICATIONS: (These items can be purchased over the counter at any local drug store)
Aspirin
Children's and adult multi-vitamin
Benadryl
Neosporin or triple antibiotic
HydroCortisone Ointment
Oral re-hydration salts
Cough medications
Acetamenophen (doesn't have to be Tylenol )
Ibuprophen (generic)
MEDICAL SUPPLIES: (These items can be purchased over the counter at any local drug store)
Ace bandages
Alcohol pads
Band-aids
Betadine wipes and sticks
Drapes
Gauzes - any size
Gloves - all sizes, sterile/non-sterile
Gowns -surgical and patient (head and shoe covers, goggles, masks)
Pediatric supplies
Tape - all types
Thermometers
OTHER:
Antibiotics
Zantac
Prevacid
Hypertension medications
Type two-Diabetes medication
Blades - sterile only
Needles - butterfly, angio catheter
Compression stockings
Dressings - sterile and un-sterile (Coban, Tegaderm, Steri-Strip, Surgilast)
IV supplies - tubing in sterile packages only
Scalpels
Sponges - surgical only (includes X-ray detectable)
Surgical towels - cloth/paper
Sutures
Syringes
Tongue depressors
Cotton tipped applicators
PLEASE spread the word through your community, church and influences. Collect what you can and send to our collection location so they can be shipped to the James' in Haiti.
Ship to:
CBF Haiti Supplies
c/o North Stuart Baptist Church
1950 NW Federal Highway
P.O. Box 958
Stuart, FL 34995-0958
If a phone number is needed on the shipment, you can put my phone number: 205-269-0563.
Here are other ways that your church can offer assistance to hurting people in Haiti:
1) PRAY - Pray for families who lost loved ones in the disaster. Pray for relief organizations. Pray for Dr. Steve James, Nurse Nancy James, and Scott Hunter, CBF field personnel in Haiti coordinating the efforts to help.
2) GIVE - Financial contributions are best thing everyone can give right now. Money will be needed in order to fund the relief needs. You can donate through the fund established by CBF Atlanta:
The official CBF giving channel for the Haiti Relief effort has been set up. You can give online Donate Haiti Relief or by sending a check to Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, P.O. Box 101699, Atlanta, GA 30392, indicating fund No. 17015 "Haiti Response."
You may make you contributions through Abingdon Baptist Church by indicating "Haiti Relief" on your check or envelope. These designated funds will be sent 100% to the CBF Haiti Relief effort.
3) GO - In time many, many persons will be needed in the long-term efforts Cooperative Baptists and partners will engage in. Varying skills will be needed. Medical personnel and people to help with collection and distribution of supplies.
Chris Boltin, short term assignments and partnerships manager at the CBF Resource Center in Atlanta, offered this word: "We need to hear from you so that when specific projects are identified, we will be able to quickly match the need with the resource." Those interested in serving in Haiti should visit CBF Disaster-Response-Application to list their skills and experience. The first teams will be deploying as early as next week. You can also contact the national CBF office at 800-352-8741 for more information on volunteering.
You can follow the continuing developments at CBF Portal on Haiti Response.
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