BURMA - Disaster Relief And Aid For People In Need

BURMA - Disaster Relief And Aid For People In Need

May 9, 2008, John Baptist Mission,Togo, Africa, News Center, Issued as provided through international mission reports:

"Warm Greetings,

Below is an e-mail from one of our church group leaders from Myanmar.

Let’s pray for them and if you can help in any way, please send your support ASAP though our website (see link below).

Dear Beloved Dr. Briggs

Praise the Lord! We have just escaped from the Nargis Cyclone which
took hold many lives in Yangon city. The scourge has brought us into a
world of depression, loneliness, rejection, helplessness and
deprivation of food, water and electricity. The Cyclone took away the
roof ( tin plates) of our rented house and the front fence was badly
destroyed. The ground floor of our house got flooded and brought
about a lot of diseases to our family. Five of our children are
affected with diarrhea. The practical problems that strike our lives:
non-availability of food to eat, pure drinking water to drink and
water to use, electricity, and the sky high prices of goods in the
city. It has been five days that the Cyclone struck , but the house
owner did not come to repair our house. We live in a ruinous house!

What we have like food and water, we give it to others who are in dare need and now it is running out! Our orphanage has 30 family members.

To live a day for our family is now overwhelming and nothing is done
to our rescue and rehabilitation so far. I do not know how long we can
live as the effect of the Cyclone is overloading for us to carry on!
We strongly keep the faith!

Moreover the roof of our church is completely destroyed! Many of our
pastors in house churches are experiencing the same fate, we could not
help each other! Many of our house churches are destroyed! The
believers are in dismay and despair.The day after the Cyclone, we
worshiped the Lord in our church without its roofs, it was just an
open air! I remember the Bible verse we read: Lamentation 3:22-26: It
is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his
compassions fail not. The members of our church and the seekers who
used to attend regularly our church are now in a state of complete
hopelessness, vacuum and ruin! You know, they live under the poverty
line, when their houses collapse, it really strikes their very lives.

I cry aloud onto the Lord, because I am not in a position to help
share the love of God to these affected people and meet their
practical needs. No one comes to rescue them! I pray that God speaks
to your hearts and be a life-rescuer to these Cyclone struck people of
my country. I want to send you photos but I could not do it because of
the slow of internet connection!

Thank you for your concern for our lives and ministries in Myanmar. I
am looking forward to partnering with WCMA to share the love of Jesus
to the poor Myanmar people and meet their practical needs. We are
now in dare need of your prayer, sympathetic and humanitarian help!

God bless!

Yours for the Kingdom,

Pastor Jonahkham


Yours in Christ’s Service,

Rev. Daniel Briggs, Ph.D.

www.wcma-usa.org

John Baptist Mission,Togo, Africa, News Center, Issued as provided through international mission reports