Posted on 03/16/2011 4:37:12 PM PDT by Gamecock
10am Japan time (13 hrs ahead of east coast time)
Dear Family and friends,
Thank you so much for praying! We have been going north to help where we can, and just a few minutes ago, we located a Japanese pastor, a good friend of ours, who is just 8km outside the evacuation zone, in a city with over 5,000 evacuees who are receiving very little govt assistance. We are mobilizing today for a trip tonight to take as much as we are able. The critical need is gasoline to get there, water, and diesel fuel for those there who could help but don't have any way to transport help. We particularly need gas cans to transport the gas...all supplies of everything here in Chiba are gone because of panic (grocery shelves empty, gas lines for hours, all containers for water, gas, etc. GONE). Just yesterday our MTW team in Nagoya began mobilizing to bring abundant supplies from there, but we just learned that in the last 12 hours, the same panic response has left them in the same situation. We trust the LORD will supply as we go out today to gather what is needed. Please pray for this effort...this pastor and his church are committed to stay until the end for their city and the glory of God; may God be exalted!
In the strength of our Sovereign, Carol (helping Dan with email tsunami)
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Japan Teams:
Christ Bible Institute
Nagoya
Tokyo
View from the Field Individual MTW Missionaries in Japan Blogs
Thanks for posting the link to the Samaritan’s Purse Update, Gamecock.
“A Samaritan’s Purse disaster relief team is in the hard-hit city of Sendai delivering relief supplies to survivors of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan’s northeastern coast on March 11.
Our 14-member team arrived in Sendai after a long drive from Tokyo through a heavy snowstorm. The convoy of trucks carried four tons of relief supplies such as blankets, water, hygiene items, and first aid kits. A strategic local church partnership was able to secure government permission for our team to travel on a restricted access expressway that was otherwise closed to civilian traffic.
“For most of the journey, our vehicles and Japanese civil defense vehicles were the only traffic on this six-lane highway,” said team member Ivan Giesbrecht. “This created an eerie, even surreal, experience as we traveled north through the quiet Japanese countryside.”
Our team in Sendai is determining areas of need, setting up a distribution network, and getting the much-needed supplies into the hands of local families as quickly as possible. The relief effort is being coordinated with volunteers from churches across Japan.
Much of northern Japan is experiencing shortages of food, water, fuel, and other necessities. Samaritan’s Purse has deployed another team to Osaka to set up a logistical hub to facilitate and expedite the purchase and transport of more relief supplies.”
In other words, where the people are helping each other instead of, as in New Orleans, waiting for a government handout.
THX THX
Samaritan’s Purse does incredible work.
Thank you both so much for all of the information.
And, thank you for not hyping it. That’s been done. ;o)
“In other words, where the people are helping each other instead of, as in New Orleans, waiting for a government handout.”
Thank you for bring up Katrina.
Mississippi was ground zero for the storm with a 35 foot storm surge.
While folks were looting in New Orleans, the good folks in Mississippi were taking care of themselves. They didn’t loot, they were thoughtful of others, etc.
Kinda like the Japanese...
So, if anyone dares to say we don’t have people like that in this country, I will take them to the woodshed.
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