Mission to the World, along with other mission organizations, sent workers and relief supplies to help the homeless, many of whom are living on the streets in Peru’s wintry conditions.

Some missionaries and volunteers began relief work immediately following the disasters. “Fifteen volunteers from Perry, Florida weathered the storm with Missionaries Jim and Viola Palmer,” Summer Palmer reported. “Immediately after the worst past the team members set to work clearing the main roads and helping the injured. The work will continue for months to come. If the rice harvest is lost, the loss in the region will be more lives in the up coming year.”

“Some people in Managua donated some relief supplies and gave them to the Mission so they could be sure that they would get to the people that needed them,” she said. “One man is donating 6,000 pounds of rice and milk and it will arrive by airplane. La Costena is flying again but only one flight a day.”

Palmer and the volunteers immediate began work helping the community to remove an estimated 5,000 electricity poles and trees that had fallen on the town’s streets.

For now, church leaders and missionaries say that they appreciate the prayers of people who are concerned about those who have suffered so much. And, they ask that generous Christians offer financial support for relief work in the regions.

Updated information on the situation in Puerto Cabezas may be found at http://www.miskitomissions.com/.

Material from the Associated Press and Agencia Latinoamericana y Caribeña de Comunicación was used in this story.

How to help

Many Christian churches and missions are accepting financial contributions to help with disaster relief in Latin America.

To help with relief along the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua, contributions may be sent to:

International Mission Board, Southern Baptist Convention
3806 Monument Ave.
P.O. Box 6767
Richmond, VA 23230-0767
Specify Hurricane Felix Relief

Or, tax-deductible contributions for immediate relief may be sent to:

Palmer Ministries
1908 Chapman
Mesquite, TX 75149
Please make checks payable to Palmer Ministries.  Please specify what the donation is for.

For assistance to Peru, contributions may be sent to:

Mission to the World
P.O. Box 116284
Atlanta, GA 30368-6284  

Please put 93982 on the memo line

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