FIRST-PERSON: Quake damage like ‘watching CNN from van’
Most people told us that if you were outside, you survived, but if you were inside a building, you died. It was hard to process it all. Some days it felt like I was watching CNN from the van window.
We met many people in great need.
They peeked out of their tents, intensely curious yet cautious. “Who are these foreigners and why are they here?”
We went to a girls’ school located in one of the hardest-hit areas of the Oct. 8 earthquake in South Asia. The school had collapsed, killing more than 200 of their classmates. Now they were meeting in tents next to their crushed building. We came to help them, to listen to them, to encourage them, to love them in Jesus’ name.