vanishing as well as existing

In terms of disaster relief, please get in touch with us (02 2772 1070). The local situation is worse than initially known. But today is a good weather to provide efficient help in the disaster areas. There are two ways how you and your church can help:

1. If you want to send people order application forms, then you can go to the south as registered volunteer. You only need to take a sleeping bag, your personal and your body care matters, some money and yourself with you.  Keep in mind, it needs 200 volunteers EVERY DAY. On some days there are not enough. The most needy places are NOT in Taitung. Ask for directions at our office so you can be an efficient helper/volunteer.

2. If you can not go but would like to really help than your donations through digital transfer are most welcomed. We have an emergency budget of 150 mio NT$. Check www.ccra.org.tw for further help, ask your Chinese speaking secretary to daily update you with the latest changes and ask her how the money should be transferred the fastest and most convenient way so it can quickly be channeled in practical actions of relief.

People have no base of life any longer, because in many cases they are unwilling to receive imbursement for their lost ground of their fathers, so they could start somewhere else.  It would take at least 10 yrs time to have those damaged (by mudslides), destroyed (by earth-slides) or gone places somehow rebuild or develop, that they could be cultivated again.  Right now thousands live in schools with no home in sight they could go back to. The government is organizing one 1000 temporary homes of the type we had it in Puli 10 yrs ago, but the real need might be by around 30,000 home who need to be rebuilt or more....

Our coworkers in the south since days have not been able to stop working until very late into the nights. All of them were still at work and taking phone calls late at 12.00 P.M.(!) in all those days.  

If you don’t know what project your church could open I suggest to link up with CCRA and later if you have singled out a local village or church with which you would like to establish a partnership (maybe to invite a team to rebuild houses?)  you may add this as part of  your organizations relief support program.

Don’t forget: Your support can make the difference. Whether people get help from a government, a Buddhist or a Christian organization influences the way they think about God afterward. – Let us help as best as we can so that his testimony is established through expressed Christian love. –

Alain Haudenschild (From CCEA’s Global Mission Center)

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