Earthquake
As you may or may not know, last night at 06:40:56 PM (CDT), an earthquake tore through Peru with a magnitude of 8.0. It hit a little coastal town called Chincha, which is a town that I actually stayed in for a week.
Chincha is a poor, yet beautiful place. All the roads are dirt, dirt floors, and the houses are made of mud and woven leaves.
The death toll in now at 355, but is expected to rise.
KTVU Channel 2 news said that, "Chincha looked as if it had been bombed. Large areas were completely leveled; dozens of homes made with adobe bricks had collapsed. Townspeople picked through the rubble of their homes, wrapped in sheets that made them look like ghosts in the early dawn."
"We don't have lights, water, communications. Most houses have fallen. Churches, stores, hotels -- everything is destroyed," Said the mayor of Pisco (another coastal town 20 miles south of Chincha) Juan Mendoza.
Now let me tell you this. When we were in Chincha, the people there were always open minded. They had no running water, they had very minimal electricity (the church had about 10 lights and when they tried to put in another one the blew the power), dirt floors, woven roofs, just very minimal stuff. BUT THEY WERE THANKFUL FOR WHAT THEY HAD. And now they have even less, I think that they will defiantly be praying and prasing God for sparing their lives.
In Pisco a church collapsed during it's service and killed about 200 people.
I know that I'm praying, for the people that we reached, that they will use this disaster to preach the word of God. I pray for the pastor's family that took us in, his wife is a pastor in Pisco. And I just pray for the country in general.
Please Keep these people in your prayers.
Chincha is a poor, yet beautiful place. All the roads are dirt, dirt floors, and the houses are made of mud and woven leaves.
The death toll in now at 355, but is expected to rise.
KTVU Channel 2 news said that, "Chincha looked as if it had been bombed. Large areas were completely leveled; dozens of homes made with adobe bricks had collapsed. Townspeople picked through the rubble of their homes, wrapped in sheets that made them look like ghosts in the early dawn."
"We don't have lights, water, communications. Most houses have fallen. Churches, stores, hotels -- everything is destroyed," Said the mayor of Pisco (another coastal town 20 miles south of Chincha) Juan Mendoza.
Now let me tell you this. When we were in Chincha, the people there were always open minded. They had no running water, they had very minimal electricity (the church had about 10 lights and when they tried to put in another one the blew the power), dirt floors, woven roofs, just very minimal stuff. BUT THEY WERE THANKFUL FOR WHAT THEY HAD. And now they have even less, I think that they will defiantly be praying and prasing God for sparing their lives.
In Pisco a church collapsed during it's service and killed about 200 people.
I know that I'm praying, for the people that we reached, that they will use this disaster to preach the word of God. I pray for the pastor's family that took us in, his wife is a pastor in Pisco. And I just pray for the country in general.
Please Keep these people in your prayers.
