BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) – A group of church members from Burlington’s First Congregational Church will board a plane Monday for a hospital in southernmost India in spite of the devastating tsunami that struck south Asia and India on Dec. 26.

The trip, planned long before the disaster, was to have brought a few thousand dollars to help the nonprofit, private James Hospital in Colachel, India. Now, thanks to the generosity of people in Vermont and beyond, the Rev. Bob Lee and six church members will bring more than $100,000 in aid to the hospital.

“It just leaves you sort of speechless that there is such a wellspring of goodness and concern,” Lee said. “It’s coming from everywhere.

“It’s very heartwarming and very humbling.”

At one point last week, a church secretary said she couldn’t leave her desk for an hour or two without at least a thousand dollars in donations appearing. Lee said knowing the money is coming has allowed the hospital to purchase malaria and cholera vaccines as well as antidote to king cobra bites.

The hospital has acted as a morgue for victims, has treated other victims and has begun to vaccinate survivors against potential outbreaks of disease.

Now, Lee said, the hospital operated by his Indian friends, James and Senega Premkumar, has become a refugee camp for the displaced.