Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Hurricane Dean - Category 5

Hello!!!

Thanks for standing with us in prayer over the past days. It was a little wild around here, getting things ready for the storm. Most it was the northern part of the country hit (HARD)! Our area and campus (Belmopan) are absolutely fine. Basically untouched. Jason is assembling a plan of action right now to head north for relief efforts in the next hour. He will head up there with other YWAM staff, DTS students, and young men from the village to help anyway they can. Basically the report from Corozol is LOTS of trees down, LOTS of wires down, LOTS of roofs blown away... (as they were 40 miles from the eye of a Category 5 hurricane). A LOT OF DEVISTATION. I will email updates when I can. The conditions will be rough for the next few weeks up there. Again, Jason and some other men with be heading up there to bring God's hope, help, encouragement, peace...and anything else we can to these communities.

If anyone is interested in helping out financially for this releif effort that would be great. All donations will go straight to releif aid. However, will not be tax deductible. Let us know if you are interested in giving, so we can process the finances quickly. Right now, we are taking up what we have. Things we would like to continually purchase for relief is: food, water, zinc for roofing, chainsaws, gas and oil for chainsaws, nails, hammers, tarps, etc, etc, etc.

We are fine here and want to be a blessing to our friends and fellow citizens in the Northern disctict. Keep in touch.