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| Benevento Registered user Username: Benevento Post Number: 62 Registered: 4-2005 |
I am sending a message that was forwarded to me by a family friend, a SDA minister and lifelongmissionary and I believe one who is so dedicated to Gods glory. If anyone can bring these people to the Lord this man could, he constantly shows love and compassions. "Into a Tent" Fri, 18 Nov 2005 22:34:22 -0800 (PST) From: John McGhee <johnkmcghee@yahoo.com> To: Denise McGhee <denisemcghee@yahoo.com> By John McGhee I sleep in a tent, work in a temporary ADRA office erected on the roof of the old British military officer's house purchased by the SDA Church over 60 years ago, and send my email from the Intercontinental Hotel in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, the land of my birth. I landed at the Islamabad International Airport last Tuesday, November 15, 6:15 a.m. after flying from Seattle. My flight path took me over Moscow where I spent 4 years working with Ted Wilson, Juan Prestol, and Mikhail Kaminsky, Euro-Asia Division administration. Just prior to landing, I flew over Afghanistan and remembered my childhood when I traveled with my family to Kabul to celebrate Thanksgiving with Dr. Hadley and his family. Dr. Gordon Hadley was recently lauded in the LA Times by an eminent Afghani physician who lectures at Harvard University, as the modern Albert Schweitzer to Afghanistan. But my experience of living and working for 27 years in the 10/40 window, did not prepare me for this present emergency assignment to lead ADRA Pakistan for the next two months during this unprecedented earthquake relief effort. It's a job unlike any other I have ever done. God and God alone must work through me, if I am to be successful. Upon arrival, I reviewed pictures, proposal documents, attended logistical cluster meetings with all other NGO directors in Islamabad, arranged travel documents and transportation for 257 tents, 11,000 blankets, and 3000 sanitation kits, and slept 23 hours in five days. I now welcome a delightful Sabbath rest. I eagerly await the arrival of Sharon Staddon and her husband, John on Thursday, November 25. Sharon will be the ADRA Finance Director for one month, and has experience serving ADRA in Africa and India, where she grew up. I knew Sharon Staddon, (nee McHenry) at Vincent Hill School when we were kids, but haven't seen her since. We will be making a world-wide appeal for several million dollars within a week. As you consider whether you wish to share in what could be a historic outpouring of funds by Adventists and their friends, please do become involved in intercessory prayer for me and my team. Some specific requests:1. That snow and ice due to the winter setting in, will not decrease the present number of 183 helicopter relief flights per day;2. That the average 9 aftershocks per day, will not prevent our NGO teams from delivering tents, blankets, lanterns, cooking utensils, sanitation supplies by causing landslides to cover the roads and trails where jeeps and mules convey these commodities to the mountain people;3. That the 3.5 million Kashmiri survivors who are missing over 150,000 family members, will receive comfort and courage from Allah, as they bow to Him in prayer five times a day;4. That ADRA's part in this huge relief operation will offer significant contributions to the people of Pakistan, financially, culturally, and spiritually;5. That not only our ADRA team, but the other 11 outstanding NGOs with whom we are are collaborating, will be blessed by God.6. That the ever-present sensitive political situation in Pakistan will not put any of the NGO teams at risk, according to God's will. As you pray, softly hum that old tune that I like so well which our family recorded 15 years ago, "Into a tent where a gypsy boy lay, dying alone at the close of the day; news of salvation we carried, said he..." I invite you to join my ADRA Pakistan team by blanketing the Karakoram mountains with prayers, even as the snow falls there tonight on so many people who are dying alone without even a tent or a blanket.If you wish to send a copy of your prayer directly to me, I will print it out and put it up on my logistics wall for the staff and all visitors to the ADRA Pakistan office to see. My email address is johnkmcghee@yahoo.com |
