TSUNAMI

[helenaofmass (helenaofmass)]

Dear Friends:

I would ask that we kneel before our Lord tonight and ask for peace, aid, revelation and renewal of spirit for the devestation of the Tsunami in S.E. Asia.
We know that only God can truly give the aid that these people need in terms of opening their hearts and revealing the truth to them.
Please join myself and others in prayer for their souls and their renewal. For many it will be the most important aid we can give them.

In His Name,
Helena

[rjfernalld (rjfernalld)]

"We know that only God can truly give the aid that these people need in terms of opening their hearts and revealing the truth to them."

How about feeding, clothing and rescuing them BEFORE herding them into a church?

Want to help? Get off your knees and send $$ to the relief effort.

[helenaofmass (helenaofmass)]

RJ:
Leave it to you to take a prayer request and turn it into a place to vent your anger. How do you know that I haven't done that? Answer is: You don't.
I would love to respond to you in the flesh, but I won't. First because that isn't the Christian thing to do and secondly it is exactly what you want.
Go In Peace RJ, you need it.

Helena

[yaakov (yaakov)]

<font color="0000ff">We know that only God can truly give the aid that these people need in terms of opening their hearts and revealing the truth to them.</font>

Over a hundred thousand (100,000) people have died in this disaster and the only help that you would give them is to pray that the survivors should be converted to your religion??!!

This is gross and un-Godly!

[rem (rem)]

120,000 peple dies

time to prayer, helping and love with God

this big proplem

prayer and to help and to loove with God

[rem (rem)]

120,000 peple dies

time to prayer, helping and love with God

this big proplem

prayer and to help and to loove with God

[rem (rem)]

thank you peples pray

thank you to help peples

help hurting peples

[moishem (moishem)]

rjfernalld,
yes, we do need to care for them, for they are in great need. but realize that the material that is given to them only temporarily supports their physical life on earth. They need comfort and true peace that can only be found in Christ. Material things won't help the pain and lost they feel. Yes, we need to help the physical hurt, and help them rebuild their life and land. but that would only leave it incomplete and wanning if we do not give them spiritual healing too. K.P., a native missionary in India wrote that in a villiage he had been to, there had been medical missionaries that were just helping the physical. The people were thankful, but they soon forsook that and went back to the bondage of the pagan religion. The love of man helped temporarily, but the love of God helps eternally. I say we pray for them and if the Lord leads you to send money do so. The amount is not as important as the heart. give what you can and never cease with prayer.

yaakov,
Biblical Christians don't seek to find more members of their group. More does not mean better. The missionaries go because they have a heart for others. They want to share the news of comfort and salvation through Christ, that is freely offered. They aren't going to India just because of the tragedy, they were already going beforehand, good times and bad. They are helping in other ways too. What you'll find with Biblical Christianity is that it's not about groups, it's about Christ.
all this out of Love,
Fallon

[rjfernalld (rjfernalld)]

How I wish I could go to Indonesia and open a home for all the orphans...love them, heal them, give them shelter, arms to hold them, to collect their tears in my hair and bring them whatever peace can be given.

I first went to SSB because I wanted to go to El Salvador and spend my life with the orphans in an orphanage there. I never have lost that desire...and now with all these poor little ones lost and dalone, I pray every night that God will protect them and someone will come to offer them a real home...with love overflowing, good food, clean clothes, and hope for their pain.

These are the times I wish my health was not compromised...I would already be there doing what I could to calm their fears, hear their sobs, feed their bellies and hold them close as God does me.

Please God... send them an angel in guise of a human who will work your miracle for them? Inspire another Amy Carmichael, Mother Theresa...dry their tears, feed them and give them hope, God.

I hear their sobs and am so helpless, God...but you are powerful and can heal with a whisper. Send and angel...send a true spirit to gather them together and make them a family?

Amen.

[kathleen (kathleen)]

Dear Friends
A friend of mine that lives in Andhra Pradesh, S India. Samuel J. Geddam has
sent me a letter of urgent need. I am fowarding what he has sent me on to you. If you
have any means to help his people please do. They need our assistance and prayers.
God Bless
Kathleen


Tsunami
A terrifying Calamity

A time to Respond



Can devastation be so sudden, so cruel, so terrifying? The disaster that has struck our Andhra Pradesh, Tamilnadu, Orissa and Kerala coasts and reasons beyond is an unprecendented as it apocalyptic. Deads arose from unknown depths, the abruptness of its strike adding to the violence of the destruction. Long stretches of inhabitated coastal areas were wrecked by killer wave in minutes, hundreds of fishing vessels were lost in the raging seas. Chennai&amp;#8217;s marina was turned into an incredible scene of doom and desolation. Was the sea exploding in anger, the earth crumbling in malevolence?



The horror of what we experienced from Cuddalore to Orissa and from Alappuzha to Kanyakumari gives us a better understanding of the devilry others suffered. The epicenter of the earthquake was between the northern tip of Sumatra and the southern end of Andaman Nicobar. People in both these areas were caught and crushed and washed away before they even knew what was happening.



A note of consolation-if indeed there can be any consolation amid such mind-numbing havoc-is that official machinery has moved with commendable speed to rescue and rehablitation. Every effort is going on this time to do everything best for the victims.

Regarding our Andhra Pradesh, coastal belt our ministry churches had been completely washed out and many families became homeless and striving hard a lot for rehabilitation. Some Pastors lost their families who have been on the outside field for Evangelism. Many children became orphans and the loss cannot be estimated at this juncture.



News reaching from the coastal area near Rajahmundry in Andhra Pradesh, north of Chennai so far tells of destruction of homes and loss of food, possessions etc.. Fishing boats and nets have been lost or destroyed, so the means to find food has also been badly affected. Clothing, bedding, and cooking utensils have also been swept away.

Some of our coastal area churches had been completely washed out and we are praying to restore our churches and many of the church families lost their lives and also many of the children became orphans.



What do the rest of us do?

This is the kind of occasion when no person, however removed or he or she may be from the scene of destruction, can stay uninvolved. This is the kind of disaster that calls for collective effort by all of us and put life back on the rails. The thousands who died in this terrible tragedy have left a vaccum that can never really be filled. The duty of the survivors is to do whatever they can to help in the rehabilitation of the regions, the villages and the families that have been devasted.

We were all shocked and saddened by this, and I know that many of us have been crying out in intercession especially for our brothers and sisters in the Lord. Keep on praising the Lord as we pray, for he is the solid rock on which we build. When the power of darkness comes in like a flood, the battle belongs to the Lord (Ps 88:17, 2Chron 20:15, Lk 6:48)!

Let the Lord guide you how to help build (and rebuild) his Kingdom. However, if you wish to donate to emergency relief and rebuilding work in coastal villages of India.

If you can help in any way we need you. Our aim would be to send a team into the area and work along side the Government agencies. We really believe that now is the time for Christians to rise up and show the power of God's love through hands on giving.


SAMUEL JOSHUA GEDDAM
HOPE CHILDREN&amp;#8217;S HOME
D No:69-1-10/1
Bhaskar Nagar, Rajahmundry 533105
East Godavari District
Andhra Pradesh, S India.

[yogi (yogi)]

LUKE 21:25

'And there will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and upon the earth dismay among nations, in perplexity at the roar-ing of the sea and the weaves,

Any comments guys!.

[ralphwells (ralphwells)]

Paul said the earth would be in labor pangs as a mother about to deliver. It sure seems to me taht teh world is groaning with a lot of pains.

Ralph
1Cor 15:10

[ralphwells (ralphwells)]

I do not want get into the who, why, what, of the terrible tidal wave that so brutalized SE Asia, but I do offer the following site as a testamony of how God preserved a handful of His people thourgh the terrible event.

<http://www.expat.or.id/orgs/calvarylifefellowship.html>

Blessings,

Ralph
1Cor 15:10

[hodeuon (hodeuon)]

Ralph,

I checked on that story you referenced, and some field personnel feel that there is probably some truth at the core of it, but that it has snowballed into a bit of an urban legend. They allow for the possibility that it's basically accurate, and would welcome anything definitive that can be determined. There definitely *have* been some wonderful stories of survival, and it will be interesting at the "big debrief" to see how God's hand was behind them.

Hodeuon