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T.E. Hanna invited me to be a part of his blog series: Shattered: How God Is Rescuing A Broken Existence. His blog, OF DUST AND KINGS is amazing!
He was looking for an article on mission work, so I wrote NEVER ALONE: WHY THE WORLD NEEDS US ALL. It’s about our work in South India when the Tsunami hit in 2004.
The pictures below are mine from Nagapattinam, South India, about two weeks after the tsunami hit. Please visit OF DUST AND KINGS and check out the stories behind these photos. The teenage girl in the pink dress is standing beside what was once her house. She tells her story in my article over at OF DUST AND KINGS
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Holly – having grown up on the mission field, these are familiar sights to me, but we in America have such a difficult time comprehending these things until we actually go and touch and smell and experience these devastating events, do we? We are truly blessed to have aid that will come in and help with clean up, with city rebuilding, with replacing and setting things right again, but countries like these may never see restoration, at least not in the lifetimes of the people in your pictures. A heart-breaking thought, and one that should motivate us into action.
Thanks Becky. I agree. We went back a year later and nothing had changed. In fact, a group of people we’d helped were marching in protest of the lack of help from the government. Some very sad sights.
The damage takes a few instants….but the recovery is so slow. Thanks for linking to these websites. I’ll check them out now.