Kerala, India Flooding Update
Monday, September 17, 2018
Dear Friends,
Kerala, India Flooding
This is a communication from Dr. John Paul Moses. He and his team are working very hard with
medical needs and telling people about Christ.
I have included the entire communication, please read all.
“Dear Uncle
Jan, Greetings again. I hope you were able to see the pictures from our first
relief. I am behind in sending these reports due to lack of cellular
connectivity. It's about 12:57 am now. Just returned for some rest. We have
completed 3 great medical and humanitarian relief camps thus far and this is
the update concerning the second one. A total of 43 people have received aid on
day one and 133 on day two and 60 on day 3. Many cases of fever. Thank God that
we are able to go to the locations where no aid has reached. Many governmental
and other NGO's came only till the main highways for the medical relief and not
into these remote locations. We have been travelling by boats from small
pockets of villages to villages which submerged during the flood.
I thank you
all so much for coming forward to help. But from the field I pray that more
help would come in to help these needy people..
We are running out on some essential meds and supplies fast, pertaining
to diabetes, and hypertension, antibiotics, chest and asthma meds, inhalers
etc. The logistic expense has been enormous thus far. We have been setting up
tents to have these clinics.. Thank God we could procure them from Bangalore
for this cause.. What a timely necessary blessing.
Many
actually died due to lack of these meds during the flood. Please pray and help as much possible. I am
sure your hearts would be moved to know that we have introduced the gospel in
these locations through this aid showing the love of Christ. Our local pastors
will be following up on the same and The first box with 100 malayali (native
language of keralites) new testaments have been given.
On the
third day today, we went to Panganad, which was entirely under water. Saw 60
patients. A 77 year old man lost everything, along with his only nebulisation
machine during this disaster. We gave away the one which we had. Of course he
needed it more than ever as he had bilateral extensive bronchi and wheeze with
spO2 fluctuating between below 88%.
Seemed to get worse without timely care. Hopefully he should get better
with the steroids and antibiotics and nebulisations we have dispensed..
Likewise many, stories such as these.. Praise God for everything..
We have
lined up 3 more clinics in the other remote villages which require us to rent a
larger boat for us to spend about 4 nights on the back waters of the sea. It is
going to cost about 300 usd per night for ten of us.
I am unable to say no because I write with
great commitment and determination, that if I go back to Bangalore without
helping these needy people, there may be little or no help coming unto them.
As for the
team, our orphanage boys, Titus and my cousin Anand, brother James and one of
our local contacts, have played a very crucial role in helping us with managing
the crowd, triage, medicine boxes etc. Eliz has been handling the pharmacy
mostly, as we don't have any dental emergencies here, and no equipment. She cut
her finger today, hopefully she should be fine. I have injured my toe due to a
small mishap. Snakes and spiders are everywhere...! I have never seen such a
big spider in my lifetime until now..
Waiting to
hear from you, I am sending Titus back to Bangalore to hopefully gather more
supplies for us to refill. Just trusting God for the provision. Yours
faithfully in Christ, Jp and Eliz”
ORH has sent $9000.00 toward this great effort to reach the
people of India with the love of Christ.
If you wish to give by credit or debit card, please go to www.operationrenewedhope.org
and choose “Network for Good.” Please designate the gift for your
specific purpose using “My preference is” then stipulate your preference.
If you wish to give by check, please send the check to
Operation Renewed Hope, P.O. Box 43242, Fayetteville, NC 28309. Please
designate the gift for your specific purpose using “My preference is” then
stipulate your preference.
God bless,
Jan Milton
Operation Renewed Hope
1017 Sage Green Ct.
Raleigh, NC 27610
910-987-5072
(As per counsel, for the benefit of our donor’s tax
deductible donations, Operation Renewed Hope has added the following
statement. The IRS requires that Operation Renewed Hope retain control
over distribution of all donations; therefore, please use the designation
description “My preference is” before the designated reason for the
donation. Thank you for helping ORH honor you and the IRS.)
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