You CAN Do Something about the Burma Cyclone...

Was horrified to read this morning that the embassies in Myanmar have closed due to a holiday...will not be open to issue visas for relief workers again until Monday.  MY GOD! 

Then, this came in from Barbara Crafton's Almost-Daily-E-Mo:

Perhaps For Just This Moment 

Out of the believer's heart shall flow rivers of living water.
John 7:38 

The news from Myanmar grows worse every day. One would expect mounting casualties as deaths are confirmed, of course, but the increasing government frustration of international aid efforts is an unwelcome and distressing surprise. The United States today suspended its efforts to get aid to the people in the stricken areas of the country, its aid workers having been forbidden entry by the repressive government there. Nobody can get in.

The Church, though, is already there and already at work distributing aid. We have been able, through transfers of Episcopal Relief and Development funds to people already on the ground there, to do what national governments have not been able to do. Anglican churches have been in Myanmar for generations; there are five Anglican dioceses in the country. This terrible case of human need strangled by the harshness of human politics reveals the blessed power of the local faith community to do much good when much larger and mightier entities can do little.

90 percent of Myanmar's people are Buddhists. The living water that flows from the heart of the believer in that country has not transformed it into a Christian country. But the presence of the Holy Spirit is never measured solely by numbers of conversions. The Spirit does other things besides inspire religious belief; we hold that the whole of creation came into being by the power of the Spirit. This include plants, animals, water, the bright sun after a dreadful storm, the power to heal after a devastating blow. The Spirit hovers over the waters of chaos and waits for just the right moment. Maybe it was just for this moment that the church has endured in Myanmar.

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To send emergency support to the Anglican Church in Myanmar, visit www.er-d.org. or telephone 1-800-334-7626, ext 5219.

from the Geranium Farm Copyright © 2001-2008 Barbara Crafton - all rights reserved

The Almost-Daily eMo

Or maybe your own denomination or church has an avenue to speed support to those people.  Thank God there is a way to do something. 

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