Sunday, October 11, 2009

philippines: faith at work

IVCF body aggregation food parcels for the victims of the typhoonOver recent weeks, the state has been lashed by equatorial storms, feat widespread high and damage. News channels are news that at least 300 grouping died after the prototypal typhoon and hundreds of thousands stranded. Large areas of the Philippines' towns and countryside are strained and Metro Manila - the capital and its surroundings - has been impact hard. The Philippines, an archipelago of 7,000 islands, has a accumulation of 89.7 million (UN, 2008). Erickson Velardo, National Director of IVCF (the IFES shitting in the Philippines) shares with us: 'Many sad events hit happened over the past some life cod to the typhoon and its resulting floods. I rattling appreciate your concern for our shitting and our country. We are favored that grouping are praying for us.' IVCF students, body and alumni are hunt to hold those strained by the disaster. Food, clothes, groceries and assets were collected. Some are preparing to wage post-trauma counselling to the victims of the typhoon. IVCF is also employed alongside comfort agencies and serving local churches who are hosting grouping who hit forfeited their homes. So farther they hit been able to wage help to 75 families. The hardship has not exclusive strained the poor but also the rich. One faith medical doctor who forfeited such mutual with IVCF members at a gathering how he is learning that we should not hold on to material possessions. Erickson continues: 'This helps us think of structure to move to deal Savior with those around us, despite the calamity. It's moved us to pray more. We crapper testify that the Lord has used us. We seek a deeper discernment of pain and how we crapper springy out and deal the philosophy with those affected. Please pray for us to undergo how to equilibrise the ministry to students and serving those in need. The body is full with added impact on top of plans for a upbringing circumstance in October, the day of IVCF in November and the domestic word in December. Pray for the 1,200 students actively participating in IVCF and the 40 body workers.'
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