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
As All Else Fails, Christian Freedom International Dispatches Aid into Devastated Burma
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich., May 9 /Christian Newswire/ -- Christian Freedom International, a Michigan-based humanitarian organization, is embarking on a unique mission to get desperately needed relief aid into cyclone-ravaged Burma. The organization's efforts are coming at a time when other international assistance has been rejected by the Burmese government, and as U.N. food aid shipments have already been confiscated by the military for its own use in the storm's aftermath.
Cyclone Nargis, which hit the Southeast Asian country on May 3, 2008, destroyed homes, roadways, grain stores and rice fields, and knocked out electricity in many parts of the country. To date, the official death toll from the storm has climbed to nearly 23,000, with 42,000 others still missing. It is the worst cyclone to hit Asia in 17 years, when 143,000 people were killed in Bangladesh in 1991.
Despite the overwhelming need for food, shelter, clean drinking water, and medical supplies for thousands of Burma's survivors, the junta remains adamant in its refusal to accept the help of a major international relief operation, insisting that it alone will distribute emergency aid among the cyclone victims. "Conventional ways of delivering aid just doesn't work in Burma," says Jim Jacobson, president of Christian Freedom International. "Independent groups like CFI are the only answer to getting aid into the country." Jacobson, who has personally made dozens of trips to the region to deliver relief aid to persecuted Karen and Karenni Christians, believes that the Burmese government's indifference to the widespread suffering of its people in the wake of Cyclone Nargis is helping the international community finally understand the true level of the junta's abject inhumanity.
For the past decade, Jacobson and his workers have witnessed firsthand the devastation of Burma's genocidal brutality carried out against its own citizens, which has caused the displacement of tens of thousands of refugees and the vicious beatings, rapes, and murders of thousands more - a humanitarian crisis that has remained unknown to most of the international community. Burma's repressive government also became the subject of worldwide scrutiny after the country's recent monk-led protests demanding freedom for all Burmese citizens.
CFI, a nonprofit organization that assists persecuted Christians around the world, has an established network of underground house church pastors in Burma, through which it is wiring funds to help provide emergency assistance for cyclone victims. CFI has also dispatched a team of indigenous backpack medics into remote areas, where storm-affected victims will receive lifesaving medical care. CFI workers are also providing spiritual guidance to Burma's suffering victims, offering Bibles and other materials to those who have never heard the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
To provide a donation for Burma's cyclone relief effort, or to learn more about CFI's work in Burma, call 1-800- 323-2273 or visit www.christianfreedom.org.
May 9, 2008, John Baptist Mission,Togo, Africa, News Center, Issued as provided through international mission reports
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BURMA - Disaster Relief And Aid For People In Need
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May 9, 2008, John Baptist Mission,Togo, Africa, News Center, Issued as provided through international mission reports:
GFA Missionaries Seeking Cyclone Survivors
YANGON, Myanmar (RANGOON, Burma), May 9 /Christian Newswire/ -- Gospel for Asia missionaries and local church leaders moved out from Yangon (Rangoon) Thursday morning to go into Myanmar's cyclone-devastated villages and search for survivors, according to a GFA correspondent inside the ravaged country.
Five teams were sent out to survey the damage and begin assessing the needs of the traumatized survivors. The teams included students from GFA's Bible college in Yangon, which has become a center of ministry to survivors in Myanmar's largest city.
One of the teams is being led by the school's dean of students. The GFA country leader is directing the relief efforts at the college, which includes providing desperately needed food and water to survivors staying on and near the campus.
The campus itself was badly damaged, but some buildings were strong enough to house survivors on a temporary basis.
GFA President K.P. Yohannan has issued an urgent plea for focused prayer as the situation has continued to grow ever more critical.
"The number of dead will probably be over 100,000," K.P. said from India, where he is working to get GFA relief materials into the beleaguered country. "Vast areas were completely drowned under the water. Now, with dead bodies littering the countryside and food and water running out, we must pray that the government will allow these much-needed supplies into the country.
"I am also asking Christians around the world to pray for our 500 missionaries in Burma, and for our 250 Bible college students."
K.P. also called for prayer for the thousands of believers who worship in more than 400 churches and 250 mission stations.
"Please pray that God will protect their health," he emphasized, noting that disease is expected to sweep the southern part of the country, where 120- mile-per-hour winds and a 12-foot storm surge swept away villages, farmland, animals and people early Saturday morning.
"The suffering of the people is unimaginable," K.P. reported. "Hundreds of thousands-perhaps millions-are homeless. Food and clean water are quickly running out. Electricity may be out for months. People have lost literally everything."
A few U.N. aid flights have been allowed to land in Rangoon, but only a handful of outside aid workers have been granted visas.
"For us, the issue is not as much visas as it is getting supplies into the affected areas," K.P. explained. "Our people are already on the ground. Our national leader is organizing the relief efforts. And he is trying to arrange for our materials to get in. But they need much more-and they need much prayer.
"We are working to get some of our workers into Burma from India," he noted, "but right now we are relying on our Burmese workers and church members who are helping every way they can to alleviate the suffering.
"Most importantly, they are bringing the hope of Jesus Christ into the situation. One of the things we learned in the wake of the Asian tsunami was that even when we bring physical aid, the emotional and spiritual needs are even greater.
"I still remember when one of our missionaries read Scripture to a woman who was about to walk into the ocean and drown herself because she had lost everything in the tsunami," he recounted. "She had received food and clothing and shelter-but she had lost her entire family and didn't want to live anymore. It was only the Good News of the Gospel that saved her.
"Even as we minister in the wake of this cyclone, we must never forget what man's deepest needs are."
Click here to give to GFA's cyclone relief fund and help bring hope to those who have lost everything www.winasia.org or www.gfa.org/cyclone.
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John Baptist Mission,Togo, Africa, News Center, Issued as provided through international mission reports
May 9, 2008, John Baptist Mission,Togo, Africa, News Center, Issued as provided through international mission reports:
GFA Missionaries Seeking Cyclone Survivors
YANGON, Myanmar (RANGOON, Burma), May 9 /Christian Newswire/ -- Gospel for Asia missionaries and local church leaders moved out from Yangon (Rangoon) Thursday morning to go into Myanmar's cyclone-devastated villages and search for survivors, according to a GFA correspondent inside the ravaged country.
Five teams were sent out to survey the damage and begin assessing the needs of the traumatized survivors. The teams included students from GFA's Bible college in Yangon, which has become a center of ministry to survivors in Myanmar's largest city.
One of the teams is being led by the school's dean of students. The GFA country leader is directing the relief efforts at the college, which includes providing desperately needed food and water to survivors staying on and near the campus.
The campus itself was badly damaged, but some buildings were strong enough to house survivors on a temporary basis.
GFA President K.P. Yohannan has issued an urgent plea for focused prayer as the situation has continued to grow ever more critical.
"The number of dead will probably be over 100,000," K.P. said from India, where he is working to get GFA relief materials into the beleaguered country. "Vast areas were completely drowned under the water. Now, with dead bodies littering the countryside and food and water running out, we must pray that the government will allow these much-needed supplies into the country.
"I am also asking Christians around the world to pray for our 500 missionaries in Burma, and for our 250 Bible college students."
K.P. also called for prayer for the thousands of believers who worship in more than 400 churches and 250 mission stations.
"Please pray that God will protect their health," he emphasized, noting that disease is expected to sweep the southern part of the country, where 120- mile-per-hour winds and a 12-foot storm surge swept away villages, farmland, animals and people early Saturday morning.
"The suffering of the people is unimaginable," K.P. reported. "Hundreds of thousands-perhaps millions-are homeless. Food and clean water are quickly running out. Electricity may be out for months. People have lost literally everything."
A few U.N. aid flights have been allowed to land in Rangoon, but only a handful of outside aid workers have been granted visas.
"For us, the issue is not as much visas as it is getting supplies into the affected areas," K.P. explained. "Our people are already on the ground. Our national leader is organizing the relief efforts. And he is trying to arrange for our materials to get in. But they need much more-and they need much prayer.
"We are working to get some of our workers into Burma from India," he noted, "but right now we are relying on our Burmese workers and church members who are helping every way they can to alleviate the suffering.
"Most importantly, they are bringing the hope of Jesus Christ into the situation. One of the things we learned in the wake of the Asian tsunami was that even when we bring physical aid, the emotional and spiritual needs are even greater.
"I still remember when one of our missionaries read Scripture to a woman who was about to walk into the ocean and drown herself because she had lost everything in the tsunami," he recounted. "She had received food and clothing and shelter-but she had lost her entire family and didn't want to live anymore. It was only the Good News of the Gospel that saved her.
"Even as we minister in the wake of this cyclone, we must never forget what man's deepest needs are."
Click here to give to GFA's cyclone relief fund and help bring hope to those who have lost everything www.winasia.org or www.gfa.org/cyclone.
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John Baptist Mission,Togo, Africa, News Center, Issued as provided through international mission reports
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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:
Water Missions International Prepares Water Purification Systems to Aid Survivors in Myanmar
CHARLESTON, Sc., May 7 /Christian Newswire/ -- Water Missions International (WMI) is preparing 44 water purification systems for immediate deployment to aid survivors of last Saturday's deadly cyclone in Myanmar. The 44 Living Water(TM) Treatment Systems (LWTS(TM)) have been requested from other organizations around the United States who are working to get relief to the people of Myanmar. World Vision has requested 20 water systems, Operation Blessing has requested up to 12, and Samaritan's Purse has asked for 12 water systems to be ready for transport this Friday, May 9. The first water systems to depart Water Missions International for this disaster effort will leave via the Samaritan's Purse transport truck on Friday morning. In addition to these initial 44 systems, Water Missions International is equipped to assemble another 19 water systems in case further requests are received. Each water system treats up to ten gallons of water per minute, approximately 10,000 gallons per day, and supports communities of up to 3,000 people.
Cyclone Nargis, a Category 3 storm, ripped though Myanmar on Saturday, May 3, affecting more than two million people. According to the latest reports, the death toll may top 100,000, and more than 70,000 people are still missing and feared dead. This is the worst disaster to strike Southeast Asia since the Tsunami in 2004. A state of emergency has been declared across five regions of Myanmar, and up to one million people are in desperate need of immediate, life-saving assistance. Clean, safe drinking water tops the list of urgent needs.
Donations are needed immediately to assist with disaster relief efforts. "With a response of this magnitude, Water Missions International could incur costs nearing $1 million," explains Danya Jordan, WMI's VP of Development. "To save lives we must act quickly, and to act quickly, we desperately need funding. We encourage everyone to act now. Every gift makes a difference," Jordan says. For more information on how to help, please contact Danya Jordan at (843)769-7395 or donate online at www.watermissions.org.
About WMI:
Water Missions International (WMI) is a nonprofit, Christian engineering organization based in Charleston, SC. WMI's mission is to provide sustainable access to safe water and an opportunity to hear the "Living Water" message in developing countries and disaster areas. Assistance is provided regardless of age, sex, race, or faith. To date, WMI has deployed a total of 560 water systems in 35 countries worldwide and two U.S. states, making safe water available to more than one million people. Visit us at www.watermissions.org.
If you would like more information about Water Missions International, or to donate funds to disaster relief projects, please contact Danya Jordan at (843) 769-7395 x 210 or djordan@watermissions.org. Donations are also accepted online at www.watermissions.org. For volunteer opportunities, contact Kelly Lewis at (843)769-7395 x 207 or volunteers@watermissions.org.
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John Baptist Mission,Togo, Africa, News Center, Issued as provided through international mission reports
May 9, 2008, John Baptist Mission,Togo, Africa, News Center, Issued as provided through international mission reports:
Water Missions International Prepares Water Purification Systems to Aid Survivors in Myanmar
CHARLESTON, Sc., May 7 /Christian Newswire/ -- Water Missions International (WMI) is preparing 44 water purification systems for immediate deployment to aid survivors of last Saturday's deadly cyclone in Myanmar. The 44 Living Water(TM) Treatment Systems (LWTS(TM)) have been requested from other organizations around the United States who are working to get relief to the people of Myanmar. World Vision has requested 20 water systems, Operation Blessing has requested up to 12, and Samaritan's Purse has asked for 12 water systems to be ready for transport this Friday, May 9. The first water systems to depart Water Missions International for this disaster effort will leave via the Samaritan's Purse transport truck on Friday morning. In addition to these initial 44 systems, Water Missions International is equipped to assemble another 19 water systems in case further requests are received. Each water system treats up to ten gallons of water per minute, approximately 10,000 gallons per day, and supports communities of up to 3,000 people.
Cyclone Nargis, a Category 3 storm, ripped though Myanmar on Saturday, May 3, affecting more than two million people. According to the latest reports, the death toll may top 100,000, and more than 70,000 people are still missing and feared dead. This is the worst disaster to strike Southeast Asia since the Tsunami in 2004. A state of emergency has been declared across five regions of Myanmar, and up to one million people are in desperate need of immediate, life-saving assistance. Clean, safe drinking water tops the list of urgent needs.
Donations are needed immediately to assist with disaster relief efforts. "With a response of this magnitude, Water Missions International could incur costs nearing $1 million," explains Danya Jordan, WMI's VP of Development. "To save lives we must act quickly, and to act quickly, we desperately need funding. We encourage everyone to act now. Every gift makes a difference," Jordan says. For more information on how to help, please contact Danya Jordan at (843)769-7395 or donate online at www.watermissions.org.
About WMI:
Water Missions International (WMI) is a nonprofit, Christian engineering organization based in Charleston, SC. WMI's mission is to provide sustainable access to safe water and an opportunity to hear the "Living Water" message in developing countries and disaster areas. Assistance is provided regardless of age, sex, race, or faith. To date, WMI has deployed a total of 560 water systems in 35 countries worldwide and two U.S. states, making safe water available to more than one million people. Visit us at www.watermissions.org.
If you would like more information about Water Missions International, or to donate funds to disaster relief projects, please contact Danya Jordan at (843) 769-7395 x 210 or djordan@watermissions.org. Donations are also accepted online at www.watermissions.org. For volunteer opportunities, contact Kelly Lewis at (843)769-7395 x 207 or volunteers@watermissions.org.
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John Baptist Mission,Togo, Africa, News Center, Issued as provided through international mission reports
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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:
Gospel for Asia Reaching Cyclone Victims
KERALA, India, May 6 /Christian Newswire/ -- Gospel for Asia has more than 500 native missionaries on the ground in cyclone- struck Burma (Myanmar), and many are already reaching out to the victims of the storm.
"The suffering of the people is unimaginable," said GFA President K.P. Yohannan, speaking from India where he is monitoring the situation. "Hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, are homeless. Food is in short supply, and prices are skyrocketing. Electricity may be out for months. People have lost literally everything."
In response, he said that the missionaries, as well as other volunteers, are forming GFA Compassion Services teams to help bring relief to thousands left homeless by the 120-mph winds. And GFA has activated a cyclone relief fund, with 100 percent of donations to the fund going straight to the field to assist survivors.
"We are also trying to get some of our workers into Burma from neighboring countries," he explained, "but right now transportation and communication are closed off."
"As in the past," he noted, "our workers and church members are helping every way they can to alleviate the suffering and bring the hope of Jesus Christ into the situation."
Only about 4 percent of Burma's population is Christian. GFA has about 400 churches in the majority Buddhist nation. Surprisingly, they are well thought of by the people because of their willingness to help in situations like the cyclone.
In 2006, the military-run government of Burma forbade foreign non-government organizations from doing aid work in the country. In the face of this disaster, the government is allowing outside assistance.
So far, the death toll is approaching 50,000, and there are thousands still unaccounted for. Observers are reporting mile after mile of devastation in which all houses and other buildings have simply disappeared.
"The people in Burma live in clusters of small communities in simple bamboo structures," Yohannan explained. "Literally hundreds of these simple structures were just blown away. We are praying here in India and are asking Christians around the world to join us."
Since GFA missionaries are already in the country, and have found favor with the government, they are one of the few groups able to offer immediate help to the people.
"Rangoon is in total darkness, and officials are estimating that there will not be electricity for at least three months," Yohannan said.
Obtaining enough food to feed all those at the Bible college presents another challenge. At present, the banks are closed and fresh food and water are in short supply. Yet these are simply the immediate problems before the aid workers.
"We are facing at least six months of continuous work ministering to the people. This is a tremendous opportunity for us to reach out in love to them, just like we did after the tsunami in 2004," Yohannan said.
Gospel for Asia is an evangelical mission organization based in Carrollton, Texas, involved in sharing the love of Jesus across South Asia.
3mnewswire.org
John Baptist Mission,Togo, Africa, News Center, Issued as provided through international mission reports
May 9, 2008, John Baptist Mission,Togo, Africa, News Center, Issued as provided through international mission reports:
Gospel for Asia Reaching Cyclone Victims
KERALA, India, May 6 /Christian Newswire/ -- Gospel for Asia has more than 500 native missionaries on the ground in cyclone- struck Burma (Myanmar), and many are already reaching out to the victims of the storm.
"The suffering of the people is unimaginable," said GFA President K.P. Yohannan, speaking from India where he is monitoring the situation. "Hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, are homeless. Food is in short supply, and prices are skyrocketing. Electricity may be out for months. People have lost literally everything."
In response, he said that the missionaries, as well as other volunteers, are forming GFA Compassion Services teams to help bring relief to thousands left homeless by the 120-mph winds. And GFA has activated a cyclone relief fund, with 100 percent of donations to the fund going straight to the field to assist survivors.
"We are also trying to get some of our workers into Burma from neighboring countries," he explained, "but right now transportation and communication are closed off."
"As in the past," he noted, "our workers and church members are helping every way they can to alleviate the suffering and bring the hope of Jesus Christ into the situation."
Only about 4 percent of Burma's population is Christian. GFA has about 400 churches in the majority Buddhist nation. Surprisingly, they are well thought of by the people because of their willingness to help in situations like the cyclone.
In 2006, the military-run government of Burma forbade foreign non-government organizations from doing aid work in the country. In the face of this disaster, the government is allowing outside assistance.
So far, the death toll is approaching 50,000, and there are thousands still unaccounted for. Observers are reporting mile after mile of devastation in which all houses and other buildings have simply disappeared.
"The people in Burma live in clusters of small communities in simple bamboo structures," Yohannan explained. "Literally hundreds of these simple structures were just blown away. We are praying here in India and are asking Christians around the world to join us."
Since GFA missionaries are already in the country, and have found favor with the government, they are one of the few groups able to offer immediate help to the people.
"Rangoon is in total darkness, and officials are estimating that there will not be electricity for at least three months," Yohannan said.
Obtaining enough food to feed all those at the Bible college presents another challenge. At present, the banks are closed and fresh food and water are in short supply. Yet these are simply the immediate problems before the aid workers.
"We are facing at least six months of continuous work ministering to the people. This is a tremendous opportunity for us to reach out in love to them, just like we did after the tsunami in 2004," Yohannan said.
Gospel for Asia is an evangelical mission organization based in Carrollton, Texas, involved in sharing the love of Jesus across South Asia.
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John Baptist Mission,Togo, Africa, News Center, Issued as provided through international mission reports
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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
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
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