good times, great cause

Our class officers planned an awesome event that was held last night-- a med school semi-formal and fundraiser for Gilda's Club. It was a great night!

Much more to come about Haiti soon too. Abby is working on uploading 300+ pictures. Much more soon...

Beginning to tell the stories from Haiti...

Hi again everyone. Hope you are all having a good day today. Thanks again for all of your prayers and support for our group who went to Haiti. On behalf of Abby, Christine, Shanti, Gil, Arun, Nikesh and myself, I truly thank all of you who kept us in your thoughts and prayers. There is so much to share, and I know that it will take some time to do so, but I want to begin with sharing this video. The man we spent the second half of the week with is Fr. Rick Frechette. He is a Passionist priest and a physician, and in my humble opinion, a living saint. He has dedicated his life to the poorest of the poor in Haiti, and I do not know words adequate enough to describe his goodness. He is the beautiful man in the video with the gentle voice and the stethescope around his neck.

We were with him both at the street clinics in the worst slums and at St. Damien's children's hospital. The images from the slums tell the story better than I ever could, and are just as we witnessed. Watching this video feels as if I was holding the video camera myself. To have walked with him those several days has changed us all, I believe. Time will tell how...

good news

Hi everyone,

Thank you all so much for your prayers while we were in Haiti. There is so much to share about our experiences, and I promise that I will share much in the very near future. Tonight, though, I just wanted to share some very good news. My good friends Paola and Joey just found out that they have a daughter waiting for them in Ethiopia. Paola sent some pictures, and she is absolutely beautiful. Their court date will probably be in late May, and Paola asks for prayers that it is sooner.

Paola and Joey are adopting through an organization called "All God's Children International" inspired by a woman named Heather Beazely when she was 18 years old. (The video becomes an infomercial for a cd, but the story is really something.) Also, in case God is moving in your heart, here is a list of some of the children who are waiting for families.

Much more soon about Haiti. In the meantime, enjoy this song I've just discovered. It's beautiful...

a message for darlene

I just received a very sweet guestbook entry from Darlene-- thanks so much for saying hi! You asked if you could share the blog, and you most definitely can. I wasn't sure how to write back to you, so thought I'd put up a note to say hi & welcome to the blog. I hope to have more videos up soon from Danielle's concerts. I know how much her heart through her music is blessing everyone!!! (I love all the notes you all send me about that too. I will pass them all on to Danielle!)

love,
nicole

ps. A group of seven of us from the med school leave on Saturday for Haiti. I'll try to post a few links of where we'll be going before we leave. Please keep us in your prayers, and know that I'll be praying for all of you too!