Safety and strength for aid workers
Last week CNN reported that Oxfam was concerned for the safety of their staff now deployed in Haiti. They said that both the unstable environmental conditions as well as crime and violence threaten those aid workers now on the scene. Each of us has a role to play in supporting the relief efforts much needed in Haiti, not just in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake but in the weeks and months and years going forward. Yes, we can certainly donate money to organizations skilled in responding to human tragedies. But even more needed is the ongoing gift of prayer for each and every worker on the ground there. (more…)

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What I remember about seventh grade is finding myself in a new school about five times as big as I’d ever known—I was stumped by algebra, and the girl who wanted to help me get through that class was my only friend. Neither of us were cool, and she didn’t care, but I longed to be accepted by the in-crowd. But every attempt to connect with them ended up in some awful embarrassment. It was a painful time of learning how to make friends and how to be a friend.
Als ich letzten wieder mal am Flughafen war, sah ich all die Schilder, die vor der Schweinegrippe warnen. Und was man Alles tun muss um sich zu schützen.
Recently I was at the airport and I saw signs all over the place warning about swine flu. And about everything you have to do to protect yourself.
For many Filipinos, the day typhoon Ketsana hit was memorable. Everyone remembers where they were, what they were doing, and who they were with. Although it has already been three weeks since the storm hit, some parts of Metro Manila are still flooded in knee-high waters that may not recede until December. Ketsana was immediately followed by Parma, though bypassed Manila and hit the provinces of northern Luzon instead. This category-5 typhoon caused a lot of landslides in Baguio and its neighboring areas. 



