The War Cry | MAY 2014
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EMERGENCY SERVICES
Essence
Salvation Army in Chile Steps Up Disaster Response
T
he Salvation Army continues relief operations
after the 8.2 earthquake and tsunami that struck
northern Chile in April left thousands homeless
and communities decimated. Relief teams from the
Army's South America West Territory are assisting those
who have lost their homes and livelihoods and are using
a $50,000 contribution from the USA Southern Territory
to distribute 20 tons of tents, bedding and food.
Emergency canteens went into the worst-hit areas to
reach those cut off by damaged roads to deliver supplies
and to determine how to build basic wooden houses for
people who have lost homes and belongings.
Caleta Tumbes, a coastal community, was all but
swept away by the tsunami that followed the earthquake.
The Salvation Army has provided fishermen in the village
with new boats so they can resume their work. More
have been requested.
In Alto Hospicio, around 2,000 houses were destroyed
and 30 fishing boats were washed away. Army
representatives are helping fishermen recover the means
to earn a living as well.
In the hours following the earthquake, with many
families sleeping in the streets and water and electricity
cut off, three teams of officers and soldiers from Calama
distributed water, milk, coffee and sourced generators.
Two feeding programs helped elderly people and
vulnerable families through the damp and cold winter.
Women's support groups allowed people to share their
concerns and create support networks.
Army representatives maintain ongoing contact with
local government leaders to carry out plans effectively,
even as programs operate from Salvation Army
properties damaged by the disaster.
Source: Lt. Colonel Alex Nesterenko, Chief Secretary,
South America West
To DONATE
visit salvationarmyusa.org, call 1-800-SAL-ARMY or via mail to: Chile Earthquake Relief, Salvation Army
World Service Office, International Relief Fund, PO Box 418558, Boston, MA 02241-8558.
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Seven Cardinal Virtues
The action of faith has to overcome obstacles. Not only may doubt
arise as to whether even the testimony of Christ is credible, but the
things that are temporal engross our time and attention. Above all,
we shrink in cowardice from the kind of life imperatively demanded
of us if we really have immortal destiny. Who does not feel that it
would change everyone if he believed with his whole soul in his
own immortality? It would supply him with a totally new standard
of values. Many things which the world prizes and pursues, he
would utterly despise, and many things which the world neglects
would be the objects of his most excellent pursuit.
From the book "The Seven Cardinal Virtues,"
by Rev. James Stalker, published in London in 1902
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