Almost $14,000 Raised at Connections Show!

Here are pictures from last Friday night's show at Northaven, via the Connections Band website.

The following is reposted from the Connections blog:

We’re all still pinching ourselves this morning, after last night’s show at Northaven.

More than 360 people packed the house to hear our “SuperHits of the 70s” show to benefit the United Methodist Committee on Relief’s work in Haiti.

And the response was nothing short of amazing.

Last night our assembled crowd raised $13,883!!**

Good Lord! (and we mean that literally...)

For perspective, we’ve now done over 25 shows in almost four full years. Before last night, the greatest single fundraising night to date was just over $7,000, and that was with a crowd of 500. Another crowd of 500 donated $5,000 on another occasion last year.

But no crowd has ever been as generous as our audience last night. There was cleary an incredible energy. We are very clear that it wasn’t US who caused this response. It was the “kairos moment” of many in the audience wanting to make a difference, wanting to find a way to “connect” in mission, combined with a show that we already had on our schedule when the earthquake hit.

We know that there were many pictures taken during the night, so very soon we’ll post some photographs as they come our way.

We are deeply grateful to the generosity of all those who came, and to the kind people of Northaven Church for hosting us.

The situation in Haiti continues to be tragic, almost beyond comprehension, in terms of its misery.

200,000 dead.
2 million now homeless.

Yesterday also marked the funeral day for the head of UMCOR, Rev. Sam Dixon, who was among those killed in the earthquake. He joins Rev. Clint Rabb (whose funeral is today in Austin) who was the head of UM Volunteers in Mission, and Jean Arnwine, a volunteer with the HPUMC Eye Clinic Team, as those who have died trying to bring healing to Haiti on behalf of the UMC.

While the reality of the pain and suffering are immeasurable, we are so humbled to be able to say...
Thank you to all who came
Thank you to those who tuned in to the live, web-streaming feed, or gave to UMCOR directly on our behalf
Thank you for doing what you can to help Haiti, and for allowing us to be a part of your response.

Connections Band

ps: if you would still like to donate directly to UMCOR, please go here. You’ll find information about the UMCOR response to Haiti overall, and also a link where you can give online right now.

** This is an updated total, with more funds continuing to trickle in still. We’ll update from time to time.