12/11/2025
DECEMBER 2025 NEWSLETTER (IT WILL BE SENT TO ALL ON OUR MAILING LIST)
December 2025
Merry Christmas to all!
After much discussion with our Board, we have made the difficult decision to dissolve the Sacred Heart Haiti Mission. This will be our last newsletter. We have received some monetary donations over the last month or so and we would like to assure you that your donation will be used as intended for the people of Haiti, but it is no longer tax deductible. We still have a sizable amount in our account that will be sent to our contacts in Haiti. Due to the extreme violence, we have not been able to send a shipment since July of 2023. At the beginning of November, we sent money to Father Brillere whom we’ve had a relationship with for many years. He has been emailing us and telling us of the violence and devastation. No one is safe, not even priests or nuns. We also sent money to the Missionaries of Charity in Miami with instructions to send it on to our Missionaries of Charity in Haiti. We have conflicting information on whether they are at the location they've always been, or if they were forced to move.
In anticipation of closing the mission, we have been downsizing the contents of our storage units and donating the items to the Rochester Medical Mission, ReStore of Rochester, Birthright,
The Landing MN (daytime homeless shelter), and local Haitians living in Rochester. The rest will be donated to suitable agencies in the Spring, when we can get back into the storage units.
We have so many fond memories of Dale & Joyce and the Missionaries of Charity throughout the years. May their lives of service and dedication to the people of Haiti be an inspiration and
calling to each one of us to find and take up our own cause for justice; no matter what that looks like. Each one of us CAN make a difference, and Dale & Joyce are proof of that! They are role
models of what it means to be a servant of God and to be the hands and feet of Jesus.
We wish to thank you for your many years of prayers, dedicated support and donations for the people of Haiti. Please continue to keep them in your prayers. If you have any questions or have
anything you’d like to discuss, please don’t hesitate to call me.
We wish you a safe and very Merry Christmas!
Lisa Jessen & the Board of Directors of the Sacred Heart Haiti Mission
Phone: 507-884-9020
Email: [email protected]
