When Lebensmittelverladen - Photo P. Acosta (left)
In this way I take my leave once in Quito - it will be my last blog entry from Quito. If
but please remember - I'm just looking around in Germany as I can be online again.
But an important message that I would not hide from you.
Here's a news flash from our emergency area in the Andes:
In recent weeks we have under the equator frozen. Since mid-January, it rains in Ecuador. Here in the highlands, we then get umbrella and jacket from the closet. On the coast, but the continuing rains have caused severe flooding. More than 20 people drowned. 13 000 living in shelters and tents. Hundreds of thousands of Ecuadorians are affected by the disaster. On 20 February, the government called out the state of emergency for the entire country.
Together with other organizations, bringing our Mission HCJB practical help. Radio listeners and communities to donate food and money. Sort By clicking the Missionshof before the German office volunteers at long tables in large bags of relief supplies, the contents of a family for a week can live. The transport to the flooded area is difficult. Landslides and destroyed bridges and roads interrupt the traffic.
went on Friday, a team of doctors and nurses in the disaster area. In the national hospitals there had long run out of medication. Our colleague Hermann Schirmacher (DMG) is present in these days place. He reports that volunteers from various churches and organizations work together closely to help the affected people. (Www.hschirma.blogspot.com)
help is still a long time may be necessary. We must reckon with the outbreak of epidemics. According to the meteorologists, the rains will continue for until April. We are
grateful for supporters and the strong euro. I know that experience with the financial support of the DMG "help Ecuador," the people God's love.
Pedro Acosta is currently on the coast and is working with the local community and "Extreme Response. There are encouraging worship, evangelism and distribution of relief supplies instead. I talked with him recently via phone. Sad as it is, but he said that ready by the Kathastrophen people, their lives to God. Out of necessity, they are looking for God. There exists a curious concept: "I am suffering (illness), so I pay off my debt to God - if I will be much harm (as in Kathastrophen), then God I can not deny the entrance into eternity can. "As if I have a right by" tragedies "of the sky and the grace of God would have.
Pedro can the people on the coast, from the Bible and the sayings of Jesus show black and white, ANYONE repent repent and must be so that he can come through Jesus to the Father and the glory. For many an eye-opener and the rescue.
same time, we do in the border dispute with Colombia, a political crisis. The neighboring country has the fight against the FARC terrorists expanded its military action on Ecuadorian soil, and thus violated the national territorial sovereignty. Diplomatic relations were broken off. Ecuador and Venezuela zogem troops on the Colombian border.
We pray that it remains only a battle of words and the crisis of the war expands. Donate
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Who wants these relief efforts can contact me, or make a referral to the DMG with the note "help-Rauscher-Acosta.
I will see how I can get it then directly to Ecuador. Information on the accounts on www.buchenauerhof.de - see link on the first page on the left.
at Sincerely still in the Andes, your iris
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