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Dire Situation at Burma Orphanage
GOD'S PEOPLE IN DESPERATE NEED
Last night (Mon. 12th May), I had a 40 minute conversation (miraculously) with one of the leaders of the Orphanage. The information that came out has shown to me that we as Christians are called to dig deep not only for the 200 people whose lives were spared by God's grace at the three orphanages, but to several other struggling Christians whose lives are at the brink of death.
We estimate at least $100,0000 to repair damages and rebuild buildings that have been destroyed by Cyclone Nargis. There is no electricity, no public transportation, no telecommunication and no internet. All prices of food, medicine, building material, hardware has sky-rocketed. The orphanage has enough money to see them through for maybe 2 months - only to buy food to feed the 200 people as well as the 70 neighbouring homeless people. Currently they are suffering torrential rain as well. For this reason their needs are very urgent...
However after my conversation last night, their situation looks wonderful compared to the one that follows:
One of the cooks at the Orphanage has his family living in the Delta region, the region most affected by the tidal surge that occurred. His family live in a Christian community of 300 people in Sar Thyu Su Village. Yesterday, the leaders of the orphanage managed by the grace of God to reach this village. The military set up road blocks for any aid to get into this region, but it is also not accessible by car. They drove for a distance, then went by a very small boat, and then transferred into another little boat and found their way to this village. The situation there is critically desperate: these people have lost everything - all food, shelter, clothing. They have not had food since the cyclone hit. They are drinking water that they have boiled. Sickness is everywhere. So many children are orphaned. They are in desperate need of water sterilisation tablets, food, shelter, medicine, candles or torches, fuel for the little boats.
There is absolutely no way that International aid can get into this community. But I believe that God has found a way and that is through these people. They are making the 3 to 4 hour journey again today, going past the military checkpoints posing as "family members" and are travelling through these disease ridden estuaries of water with a little boat carrying rations of food and medicine. (Barely enough to feed 300, but enough to sustain them for a time.- by the grace of God). This is a community of God's children that would probably not get a glimpse of the International Aid. It is because these people are Burmese, that they can get through.
I pray that the little they have brought "The little 'bag of rice' will not be used up and the bottles of water will not run dry until the Lord rescues them from the land.' just as Elijah said to the widow at Zarepath, "For this is what the Lord of Israel says; "The jar of flour will not be used up and the jar of oil will not run dry until the day the Lord gives rain on the land". 1 Kings 17:14.
Please Pray!
To all of you who believe, I plead with you to urgently pray
* for these struggling believers in Burma.
* for the Military regime that runs this country that their hearts will be softened to the needs of these people
* that God will show you how much you can give on Sunday to help these 300 plus 200 plus 70 people that God has placed in our radar.
"Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this," says the Lord Almighty," and see if I will not open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it." Malachi 3:10
Janette Hemelaar
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