Our friends Manny and Sherry and their three girls as well as thousands of others have been seriously affected by typhoon Ondoy.
They write:
Today Manny and I (and Mercy) went to a village 20 minutes from our house (called Arenda) to help a local church distribute food to those who are still affected by the flood 9 days ago. What we saw was truly heartbreaking. We put together a slideshow just from the pictures we took today so that you can see what the situation is like. You can see it at:
The first 4 pictures were taken in our own subdivision and the rest from the village where we went.
We had to ride on home-made rafts down the streets as the water in some places was up to 4 feet deep. We saw dead animals and garbage floating by us and children swimming under the water like it was a swimming pool. There was no place else for the children to play, their homes and schools are flooded, they just go out into this very unsanitary water and swim around.
We will continue to provide aid to this village and others like it that desperately need help. We are trying to organize a YWAM outreach to go to this village and pray for the people as we give the food to them. We will most likely be meeting the Samaritan's Purse Canada director tomorrow to see how we can partner with them to help these people and have contacted Operation Blessing to see if they can help provide food, water, clothes, and medicine. The flood water in this village is not expected to be gone for several months and that's if there are no more storms. Electricity cannot be turned back on (obviously) because of the danger. These people are the poorest of the poor and are truly suffering with this water everywhere. This is just ONE village out of so many that are in the same situation.
Please pray for God's mercy and love to be poured out to them in this desperate time and that they would call out to Him. Pray that the outreaches to these communities by the local churches will show the love of Christ and many would come into the Kingdom as they see God's love demonstrated in practical ways to help them.
"Ondoy" (as it is known in the Philippines) dumped nearly twice as much rain 9 days ago on Manila as Katrina did on New Orleans. You can understand why we prayed so hard for the hurricane to miss Manila a few days ago; Manila cannot take on more water right now. Some of these villages will be flooded like this for months. In case you did not see the news reports about this flood, you can see a 2-minute clip from CNN on YouTube from last week:
If you would like to give to help us continue to provide food, water, medicine, and clothes to this village and others that are flooded, you can send a tax-deductible donation to:
SEED Project Asia
2632 Ranchette Road
Billings, MT 59105-3737
Please make a note that the money is for FLOOD RELIEF. 100% of all donations go towards relief for these flood victims, we have NO overhead or administration costs or salaries to pay - it ALL goes to help these people. 100%.
Love,
Sherry & Manny
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