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Nepal quake survivors endure

A pastor walks through the village where he ministers in Nepal.

Life is a struggle for those who survived Nepal’s earthquake.

“We are suffering and still living in tents,” wrote the pastor of Grace Church and Ministries in Kathmandu, in an email to an NTM leader who met with him recently in Nepal. “All our church members are also living in tents. Yes, we are suffering different ways from earthquakes in Nepal.”

“We need your kind prayer supports to us. … There are earthquakes several times and raining time to time.”

The pastor’s situation is complicated by their ministry commitments.

“My wife and I are taking care of orphans who are really helpless and needed to shelter. We do not know how to provide food for them. Markets also not open and also a few shop open but it is expensive now.”

His house is damaged but standing.

My wife and I are taking care of orphans who are really helpless and needed to shelter. We do not know how to provide food for them.
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“There are several cracks in my house inside and outside and broken bathrooms, walls.  Praise the Lord my house is not totally fell down,” he wrote. “We think my house still can repair and can rebuild some parts of wall.”

Of course, the pastor, his church and the orphans are not the only ones suffering.

“Small earthquake still there time to time,” he wrote. “We can see many many people are hospitalized and many buried under the houses and some are still under the broken houses in Kathmandu. Many many old houses are broken totally. New houses also some broken and several cracks.”

The initial earthquake struck on what the pastor called “an ordinary, cool and cloudy, spring morning in Nepal.” He and the church were meeting together.

“The floor sharply tilted, a deafening roar, violent shaking and pitching—earthquake! People run, screaming, to the doors, but we cannot all get outside, we hold tightly onto each other, and pray.”

He had just spoken on gratitude, and “now here we were, thanking Jesus for his protection,” in the midst of the quake.

“For more than a minute (but seemed like so much longer!), everything shook and rolled, it was raining bricks and lumps of concrete, the incredible noise of the quake itself, and the sounds of crashing walls and of falling objects, and people yelling and screaming fill the air. At last, all is momentarily still.”

That’s when people headed for open ground, picking their way through rubble-choked streets, avoiding power lines and wary of anything that could fall on them in an aftershock.

Now, more than a week later, the pastor writes to ask for help, but adds, “Our friends are OK, we are OK. We just keep thanking Jesus and praying for this nation and this city.

“Even as I write this, there are regular, small shocks, the windows creak and rattle, the beds shake. Rescue efforts continue for those trapped in the rubble, roads are blocked and lots of buildings have cracks. We are very thankful for our safety and the safety of all our friends, and for our praying friends in different parts of the world.

“Thank you Jesus,” he concluded.

Tags: Asia-Pacific, Mission News,
POSTED ON May 07, 2015 by Ian Fallis