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15/3/07 - Mozambique Update - Disaster Relief Photos
Disaster Relief Partner, IRIS MINISTRIES has released over 40 pictures from initial relief operations.
You can see the change from despair at the hopelessness of the situation move to Joy as IRIS MINISTRIES brings food, shares the Good News and heals the sick.
Click here to view the photos.
8/3/07 - Mozambique - Cyclone Favio Disaster Update
"We are sending Gordy to Swaziland tomorrow to help clear the container. We have organized the truck to get the food to the people. Mercifully we have about ten four ton trucks of our
own.
I have never seen such suffering as the camps in Zambezia.
Today the INGC (disaster co-ordination organisation) told Iris Ministries, if we don't feed the people in the camps of Zambezia they will starve. I am not sure how this is so out of control, but we are feedings thousands everyday and ministering to them all as well. There hearts are so open to the Lord.
Love in Jesus,
Heidi"
6/3/07 - Mozambique - Cyclone Favio Disaster
IRIS MINISTRIES reports that over 300 of their churches have been destroyed in the flooding and winds from Cyclone Favio that struck Mozambique on 22nd February.
One container holding 275,000 meals is nearby in Swaziland and they agreed to release it for Mozambique relief operations. It is hoped that the meals can sustain the people until our next wave of relief can arrive.
FTH has began preparations to send 10 forty foot containers into Mozambique to begin relief operations with long-time ministry partner IRIS MINISTRIES.
These containers contain food valued at AUD$633,000.
FTH urgently needs to raise AUD$93,000 to cover the costs of shipping this food.
Click here for more information about the Mozambique disaster.
Help us send these urgently needed food by making a donation here.
6/3/07 - FTH Partner Letter Released - Operation 'Domino Effect'
Highlighting our ongoing work in nearby Indonesia, the March partner letter has been released and is available to download.
In May 2006, FTH sent funds through to an Australian Missionary couple in Indonesia to assist in relief operations for the Yogyakarta earthquake which killed over 650 people and left 1.4 million people homeless.
This is an opportunity to help support a ministry which has led over 200 Indonesians to Christ in the last 9 months.
Click here to download the March Partner letter.
1/3/07 - Hope For Darfur - A widow named Hajja
While at our Gir church distribution site, a widow named Hajja showed up with bucket in hand as the church team was unloading 20 tons of sorghum.
She was half blind, and was desperate for food. The leaders told her that the food would not be distributed until the next day but still she waited patiently.
After the trucks were unloaded, she started picking up the grains which fell from the sacks into the dirt-- some grains fall from the tiny holes of the sacks. She collected as much as she could... which wound up being a bucket full of sorghum mixed with dirt.
Hajja was there the next day too for her allotment of just sorghum. It reminds me of God's command to the children of Israel:
“And when you get in the grain from your land, do not take up the grain which has been dropped in the field; let that be for the poor, and for the stranger: I am the Lord your God.” (Leviticus 23:22)
Stefan Radelich
FTH International Director
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