WMU providing safe water, support for tsunami victims
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP)--Woman’s Missionary Union is sending more than $37,000 worth of water purification equipment to Indonesia to help provide clean water to those affected by the devastating tsunami.
Mohler, television panel discuss God’s role in tsunami
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| Christian response Southern Seminary President R. Albert Mohler Jr. appeared alongside other panelists on 'Larry King Live' Jan. 7 to discuss God's role in the tsunami. Photo courtesy of SBTS |
A panel of six religious and spiritual leaders addressed that question on CNN’s “Larry King Live” Jan. 7, and each gave distinctly different answers. Their responses exposed a difference between the personal, sovereign God of Christianity and the deity of other religions that is as vast as the devastation the tsunami left in its wake.
IMB worker loses cousin in tsunami, but now desires to return to Sri Lanka to minister
RICHMOND, Va. (BP)--For Emily Thevathasan, the tsunami was personal.
A day after her native Sri Lanka was struck by the massive waves, Thevathasan learned that one of her cousins was killed when water swept her away.
An employee of the International Mission Board and member of First Baptist Church in Richmond, Va., Thevathasan recently shared how her Christian faith comforted her following the tsunami. She hopes to return to Sri Lanka to share the love of Christ through relief efforts.
New tsunami video download available for Sunday services
RICHMOND, Va. (BP)--"100% Relief: Reflections on the Tsunami" -- a new, one-minute video about the Asian tsunami disaster and Southern Baptist response –- will be available from the International Mission Board for downloading and use in Sunday worship services.
Tsunami disaster relief volunteers preparing for challenges
DALLAS (BP)--When South Carolina disaster relief volunteers were forced to delay a trip to Asia last fall until early January, they assumed God would be at work regardless of the change. After the Dec. 26 tsunamis killed tens of thousands around the Indian Ocean, Judy Fulmer of Prosperity, S.C., said, “We knew ... that’s why God changed our plans.”
In Indonesia, survivors & aid workers mourn the dead, focus on the needs of the living
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| Barefoot survivor A barefoot tsunami survivor pushes a wheelbarrow through debris near the center of Banda Aceh, Indonesia, on Jan. 4. People across the city, desperate for help, ask for rubber gloves and masks while they help recover some of the thousands of corpses of victims of the Dec. 26 earthquake and tsunami. |
She was giving thanks that her home was still standing.
“But then I saw the people running up the hill,” she says, pointing at the slope rising nearby. “'Why are you running?’ I asked them. “They were screaming, ‘Water! Water! Run!’ There was no time to get anything from the house.”
The frightened villagers climbed on top of homes at the top of the hill. “When the water came, it was rolling and rolling,” Tetty recalls, spinning her hands frantically. “'Oh, dear God!’ I was crying. People were screaming and crying, ‘Forgive us, God! Have mercy on us, God!’”
With tears in her eyes, she looks toward the ocean. “Alhamdulillah [thanks be to Allah], all of my family is OK.”
FIRST-PERSON: God & the tsunami (Part 3)
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--The photographs and images are now seared into our consciousness. One of the most troubling aspects of the disaster in South Asia is the death of infants and young children. Moving at the speed of a jetliner, the walls of water fell on the young and the old alike -- and so many of the youngest were simply swept away.
Evidences of God’s grace emerge from tsunami-hit regions
LAKE FOREST, Calif. (BP)--Evidences of God’s grace have been reported in the midst of the horrors stemming from the earthquake and tidal waves that devastated 3,000 miles of shoreline around the Indian Ocean.
Tsunami relief: frequently asked questions
RICHMOND, Va. (BP)--Here are some answers to questions many Southern Baptists are asking about the Asian tsunami disaster and how they can respond:
Reporter: Christians have ‘phenomenal opportunity to step up’
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (BP)--He will never forget the lament of a daughter crying over the body of her dead mother -- still half-buried under the wreckage of a transit station a week after the tsunami hit.
