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As the fallout continues from Tuesday’s earthquake, and word of the dead comes in, the Dedham Temple Haitian Seventh-Day Adventist Church plans to hold a day of prayer for Haiti tomorrow.
“A lot of people lost relatives,” said Philippe Emmanuel Joseph, the pastor. “In the evening we’re going to have everybody there so we they can process their grief, and talk about their losses.”
Joseph said the church at 410 Washington St., will have its usual Saturday morning service starting at 9 a.m., followed by the grief event around 4 or 4:30 p.m.
“Non-church members who want to be there are welcome,” said Joseph, 54, who became the pastor in Dedham in September.
Joseph, who left Haiti in 1977, said most of his family members live in the south, 90 or 100 miles away from Port-au-Prince.
The 7.0 quake leveled much of the capital. The Red Cross estimates 45,000 to 50,000 people were killed, according to the Associated Press.
“We are still hopeful that something will come out of this terrible situation,” former pastor Jean-Robert Jean-Baptiste said Thursday.
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He said then that just a few of the church’s members had been able to get in touch with members, “but we’re still waiting between today and tomorrow to see what will come out of this situation. But it’s a very sad one, a very painful one, all the churches are affected by it,” including Haitian congregations and Anglo churches with Haitian members, Jean-Baptiste said.
The church, which serves almost 160 people from Dedham and nearby neighborhoods in Boston, moved from Roslindale to Dedham Square two years ago, Jean-Baptiste said. He was its pastor for about eight years, until he was transferred recently to a Canton church.
Do you have Dedham and Haiti connections? Contact Dedham Transcript staff writer Edward B. Colby at 781-433-8336 or ecolby@cnc.com.
As the fallout continues from Tuesday’s earthquake, and word of the dead comes in, the Dedham Temple Haitian Seventh-Day Adventist Church plans to hold a day of prayer for Haiti tomorrow.
“A lot of people lost relatives,” said Philippe Emmanuel Joseph, the pastor. “In the evening we’re going to have everybody there so we they can process their grief, and talk about their losses.”
Joseph said the church at 410 Washington St., will have its usual Saturday morning service starting at 9 a.m., followed by the grief event around 4 or 4:30 p.m.
“Non-church members who want to be there are welcome,” said Joseph, 54, who became the pastor in Dedham in September.
Joseph, who left Haiti in 1977, said most of his family members live in the south, 90 or 100 miles away from Port-au-Prince.
The 7.0 quake leveled much of the capital. The Red Cross estimates 45,000 to 50,000 people were killed, according to the Associated Press.
“We are still hopeful that something will come out of this terrible situation,” former pastor Jean-Robert Jean-Baptiste said Thursday.
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Do you have Dedham and Haiti connections? Contact Dedham Transcript staff writer Edward B. Colby at 781-433-8336 or ecolby@cnc.com. For more local news on Haiti click here.
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He said then that just a few of the church’s members had been able to get in touch with members, “but we’re still waiting between today and tomorrow to see what will come out of this situation. But it’s a very sad one, a very painful one, all the churches are affected by it,” including Haitian congregations and Anglo churches with Haitian members, Jean-Baptiste said.
The church, which serves almost 160 people from Dedham and nearby neighborhoods in Boston, moved from Roslindale to Dedham Square two years ago, Jean-Baptiste said. He was its pastor for about eight years, until he was transferred recently to a Canton church.
Do you have Dedham and Haiti connections? Contact Dedham Transcript staff writer Edward B. Colby at 781-433-8336 or ecolby@cnc.com.
