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After the worst earthquake in a long time, Haiti needs your prayers first and foremost.  If you would like to support organization that do work there, here is few good places to start learning about them.

• Consumer Reports Money Blog – Haitian earthquake relief: What to know before you donate
• Good Intentions Are Not Enough – The DOs and DON’Ts of Disaster Donations

• International Orthodox Christian Charities – Relief for the Beleaguered People of Haiti
• Bread for the World – How to Help in Haiti
• Compassion International – Haiti Earthquake Response Fund
• Convoy of Hope
• Samaritan’s Purse
• Squashed – Responding to the Haiti Earthquake

I am sure most of my Coptic Orthodox Readers have heard about the StMarkDC Graduate Passion Retreat, but for the rest of you who haven’t this is not the event to miss!  The winning entry to the video contest says it all…

The retreat is from February 19-21, 2010 and will be held at Sandy Cove in North East, Maryland.

This retreat will prepare you for Holy Week and change your life if you let it. Discussions will be given by Bishop David, Father Bishoy Andrawes, Father Anthony Messeh and Father Paul Guirgis.

Registration Information and details at http://www.stmarkdc.org/en/gradretreat and on Facebook.

From the Drupal/F1 project page…

This project’s goal is to create a solution for integrating Drupal with the Fellowship One Church Management System (ChMS).

Use the chipin widget here to help make this project happen. When the chipin amount is reached, development will begin. The development approach will be incremental, so once the base module is developed we will be adding features as time goes along.

The chipin here will fund the following features:

• Base Drupal/F1 integration for both Drupal 6 & Drupal 7
• The core work will basically get Drupal talking to the F1 database, doing core API integrations.
• The initial focus will be on user integration. User accounts from Fellowship One will be integrated into the Drupal user database. This includes basic profile information as well as login and site access.

Once these features are complete, more will be added. Next stages will focus on event integration and registrations.

Many thanks to Rob Feature and Matt Farina for getting this going.

Kaweem, a good buddy of mine and extreme gadget aficionado has recorded an awesome 3-part video review of Google’s Nexus One.