Yes, it has been a while since I last wrote on my blog. Sometimes life overtakes my best intentions. October and into November was filled with many activities at BUC – a lecture by Samantha Nutt, the Women’s Retreat, our play “This Hour Has 365 Days”, and this week preparations for our Market Place. There have also been difficult funerals. Saying good-bye to loved ones is never easy.
Tonight, like most Canadians I sit before the news transfixed by the horrible news coming out of the Philippines. On the United Church website it says, “Possibly as many as 10,000 people were killed. Entire villages were leveled by high winds and towering waves. Vital infrastructure, including roads, bridges, and power installations, has been destroyed or damaged. The President of the Philippines, Benigno Aquino, has declared a “state of national calamity.”
How grateful I am that our United Church of Canada works closely with our partners—the National Council of Churches in the Philippines (NCCP) and United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP)— so that any money sent by United Church of Canada will go directly to those churches where it can be used by those already on the ground and in place to support and assist the local people.
I will donate and I will hold the people in prayer.
