PakistanFloods: Christian Relief: Anomalies of compassion in a world torn by religion and terrorism
I was struck to the heart when I happened upon Kristen deRoo VanderBerg's article below regarding international Christian diaconal work in Pakistan, a Moslem country where Christians are often persecuted. VandenBerg is Communications officer for Christian Reformed World Relief Commission, a denominationally-mandated active arm of compassion in many Third World countries.
In Pakistan, CRWRC is a lead respondent to the terrible massive floods that have devastated parts of the country. It's been all too sadly interesting to me that rich Pakistanis of the wealthy landlord variety (with tenant farmers totally dependent on their landholding masters) apparently do nothing to mobilize their resources to be of assistance to their poor and displaced.
On the one hand, there are the Taliban-type terrorists and their sympathizers, on the other hand there are the wealthy who finance the mainstream political parties. The broad generality of the people are cawt between these rending forces. That my favourite Christian relief org can function in such a milieu and get the aid to the people in the maelstrom is another miracle, altho I can't think of the NT text that m+t best function analogously to that of the multiplication of the loaves and fishes by our Lord Jesus. Yes, He's done it again!
Pakistan: A Modern Miracle of Multiplication
CRWRC Newsroom | November 9, 2010
CRWRC's volunteer International Relief Manager Jacob Kramer was in Pakistan in October to assist with the response.
CRWRC has seen miracles at work as it took on the challenge of respond-ing to floods in Paki-stan. Perhaps the greatest of these miracles has been the multiplication of funds.
CRWRC originally put forward $105,000 of its existing funds for its Pakistan flood response. With this initial contribution, CRWRC worked through the Canadian Foodgrains Bank (CFGB) - a partnership of Canadian churches and church-based agencies working to end hunger - and was able to deliver $2,515,000 in food assistance to the devastated Nowshera and Charsadda districts of the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and to the Rahim Yar Khan district of Southern Punjab. This was carried out in collaboration with CRWRC’s Christian partner organization in Pakistan, the Interfaith League Against Poverty (ILAP). ["Interfaith" in Pakistan means Muslims and Christians are cooperating. Now that's good news!]
-- Politicarp
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CRWRC Newsroom | November 9, 2010
CRWRC's volunteer International Relief Manager Jacob Kramer was in Pakistan in October to assist with the response. |
CRWRC has seen miracles at work as it took on the challenge of respond-ing to floods in Paki-stan. Perhaps the greatest of these miracles has been the multiplication of funds.
CRWRC originally put forward $105,000 of its existing funds for its Pakistan flood response. With this initial contribution, CRWRC worked through the Canadian Foodgrains Bank (CFGB) - a partnership of Canadian churches and church-based agencies working to end hunger - and was able to deliver $2,515,000 in food assistance to the devastated Nowshera and Charsadda districts of the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and to the Rahim Yar Khan district of Southern Punjab. This was carried out in collaboration with CRWRC’s Christian partner organization in Pakistan, the Interfaith League Against Poverty (ILAP).
CRWRC originally put forward $105,000 of its existing funds for its Pakistan flood response. With this initial contribution, CRWRC worked through the Canadian Foodgrains Bank (CFGB) - a partnership of Canadian churches and church-based agencies working to end hunger - and was able to deliver $2,515,000 in food assistance to the devastated Nowshera and Charsadda districts of the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and to the Rahim Yar Khan district of Southern Punjab. This was carried out in collaboration with CRWRC’s Christian partner organization in Pakistan, the Interfaith League Against Poverty (ILAP).
["Interfaith" in Pakistan means Muslims and Christians are cooperating. Now that's good news!]
-- Politicarp
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-- Politicarp
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