It has been about one month since Typhoon
Haiyan (Yolanda) wreaked havoc on the Philippines. Currently, the death toll stands at 5,924 and
1,779 people are still missing. It was
reported that 500,000 homes where completely demolished and an additional
536,000 damaged. More than 12 million
people have been affected by this super typhoon when it made landfall on
November 8. Several islands were left
without electricity or phone towers to communicate. Information was slow in getting out and
millions of people were left homeless and without access to food, water and
medical care.
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| U-Turn for Christ/CC Herani Re-Building underway |
Gerry Brown's son Joshua is continuing the work in Eastern Samar through Christmas and New Year's. Here is the status of the efforts to rebuild the church. Foundational pillars are being poured now for the second level
along with the foundational slab for the ground floor, since they all
have to be poured together for the strength of the building. Crazy since
all is still being done by hand. The work at the
Bible School is continuing with Glenn Cole from CC Lone Mountain. He is now helping to watch over that project
after Pastor Bong got them going. They had a little trouble
getting the sand to quit caving in on them there while digging the
foundational footings for the pillars, but Pastor Bong showed them how
to shore it up and now they have two foundational pillars in place and
are working on the other 8 that are needed.
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| Feeding Program at Hernani Elementary School |
The feeding program with the children is on-going. Now with the elementary school back in session, the feeding includes the whole student body and teaching
staff in Hernani. There were originally 482 children in the school. Since the typhoon, about
200 of them have returned to school. Some are still unknown about,
while others have moved with family in other parts of the island. CC Dumaguete
and the CC Bible College Dumaguete have come alongside the U-Turn for Christ family by sending relief teams. They
are doing a Christmas Evangelistic outreach for the school kids and community. The event took place December 18 (Update and photos to follow.)
The Superintendent of Education had a meeting with Gerry Brown and requested to expand into two other villages that were also devastated. They asked for help with some school supplies (pencils, pens,
paper, erasers and any out dated books). That would help them greatly since all was lost in the typhoon.
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