Saturday, May 17, 2008
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My condolences towards the victims in SiChuan & Burma
It shatters my heart to see so many suffer, first Burma, and now Si Chuan, China. The death toll of the earthquake in China has already hit 19 000 (estimated 50 000) and still counting. As I watched on the news of the bodies being carried out one after the other, my heart is just breaks apart. Just seeing the ones who survived crying for their lost ones just gives me such a bitter feeling inside. Just today, I heard that some are even forced to saw of their limbs in order to save their lives...
As the Beijing Olympics are approaching in August 8th. This terrible news emerges. While families are happily waiting together for the Olympics, others are waiting desperately for their loved ones or worse mourning over their dead loved ones. Bad news after bad news, there seems to be no end.
many have lost their homes and loved ones. Let's contribute through prayer and in any way we can.What you could do:
1. According to a link Sophie sent: by Adding the rainbow “(R)” on your msn (live) messenger as part of your display name, MSN will donate 0.20 (RMB?) to the earthquake disaster.
As Sophie puts: A convenience to be done at hand, can make a difference.
Link to the Official website: http://info.msn.com.cn/caihong/rainbow.html
2. Prayer, never underestimate the power of prayer, God is always there to listen to our cries, sorrows, etc.
OR: if you have the Cash:
(taken from Red Cross website) Canadians wishing to make a financial donation may give online at www.redcross.ca, call 1-800-418-1111 or contact their local Canadian Red Cross office. The 24-hour toll free line accepts Visa, MasterCard and American Express. Cheques should be made payable to the Canadian Red Cross, earmarked “China Earthquake” and mailed to the Canadian Red Cross National Office, 170 Metcalfe Street, Suite 300, Ottawa, Ontario, K2P 2P2.
In-kind donations of food, clothing and other items, while well intentioned, are not the best way to help those in need. There are tremendous processing and transportation costs involved in shipping these items to beneficiaries. Local purchases of food and clothing are more culturally appropriate and effective. Red Cross supplies can be purchased in the immediate area, thereby reducing transportation costs. Cash transfers to the affected region provide the optimum flexibility to our Red Cross colleagues so they can meet the most urgent needs.
Please help.
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Thank you so much for adding prayer to the must donate items in your post for the suffering of people in this last day. Jesus said it would be this way, but it is still people that go through every fulfilled prophecy. Whether it be the "earthquakes in divers places", (Matthew 24:7) or the hurricane, cyclone, tsunami "sea and waves roaring", (Luke 21:25), It is still people like you and I that bear the brunt of the devastation. I cry with every picture of the hungry children with bloated stomachs, in famine ridden countries, (Matthew 24:7) that even when the world responds (Mainly the U.S.A., and Canada), corrupt governments hoard it for themselves, instead of for the ones that need it. Pray!!! Bro. Cliff Stafford