Posted by Our Covington site spent several days preparing for Hurricane Sally to make a direct hit in Southeast Louisiana, only to find that the storm turned east instead and dropped about 2.5 feet of rain in Pensacola, Florida. By the time the storm cleared the area many trees and branches had come down and most of…Read more »
Posted by Each month of 2020 seems to bring a new crisis to mind. So far we have experienced an ongoing pandemic, riots and protests nationwide, rivers flooding in the north, fires raging in the west, and we are still right in the heart of one of the most active hurricane seasons ever. Altogether the picture can…Read more »
Posted by In May of this year a small tornado passed near our site in Friendswood, Texas. None of the homes we were working on reported any damage, but we did get word of a small Assembly of God church that had been impacted. They had a lot of roof damage and then some interior damage to…Read more »
Posted by “The scenery looks like Hiroshima. I saw literally around 200 injured lying on the ground of a hospital that has been itself half destroyed. The scene looks like a battle field. There are some damage at the church building. But now we care for the injured souls”, our partner, and lead pastor of the Free…Read more »
Posted by What can we do in a stay-at-home world where volunteer mission teams are all cancelled? How can we disciple people effectively in a world of virtual connections? How about a virtual missions trip? We prayed for how God could use us during this Covid-19 stay-at-home time. The idea of leading a virtual mission trip with…Read more »
Posted by While the world concluded the celebration of Easter amid the Covid pandemic, a series of tornadoes crushed numerous communities across the southeast, leaving many residents who were heeding the Covid ‘stay at home’ orders, now with no place to stay. One particularly hard hit community was Ooltewah, TN, near of Chattanooga, and home to Two…Read more »
Posted by EFCA ReachGlobal Crisis Response began engaging the Corona virus in January on hearing initial reports of hospitals being overwhelmed in China. We were quickly able to mobilize desperately needed masks and gloves from our ministry center and ship them to partners working in the most impacted areas. With the virus now close to home in…Read more »
Posted by Sam described it as a “hopeless situation”. The first floor of his daughter Stephanie’s home had been flooded by Hurricane Harvey in 2017. But it had never been gutted. When our Crisis Response team showed up to look at the house last year they couldn’t believe what they saw. All the furniture was damaged and…Read more »
Posted by While we spent Christmas day enjoying family, eating special foods and giving gifts, our Brothers and Sisters in the central Philippines were huddled together under the ravages of Typhoon Phanfone. The storm’s 120 mph winds blew across the islands of Leyte and Samar for 24 hours, peeling apart roofs and homes, felling power lines and…Read more »
Posted by Three weeks ago, unusually heavy rains began inundating the Ubangi River, in a region of central Africa where Reachglobal has had long term influence. And the rains have not stopped, so the flooding is spreading. Over 40,000 people are now displaced, 14,000 homes destroyed, many more standing but uninhabitable. Worse, lost crops and flooded fields…Read more »
