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| i kind of love blogs, so we started one for the whole fun engagement process. =) plus, it gives me a random place to throw out my ideas and stuff. here is the site: http://our-bella-notte.blogspot.com/ yay!! although sometimes i'm kinda bad about posting pictures. unless they are from my phone, which i can totally do on the fly. anyhow, come have fun with us!!! =)
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| The following letter was read by the pastor of Living Hope Community Church, and was verified for legitimacy. (KoKo is a student who was studying in the states for a year down in Princeton with one of the pastoral interns at GCC. I believe he is currently a seminarian in Myanmar. Sora Kim who studied with him and shared the current news and email with us)
Hi friends,
Greetings you from Pathein Myanmar.
Hopefully you already know about the natural disaster. It was so painful and sad experience that we, the people from Myanmar are suffering. Throughout the whole night my two year old son, and my pregnant wife who is going to give birth next month and I had to taste the painful experience of cyclone disaster. the roof of my house was blown by the wind since 1:00 am. So, we have no place to go. we just stood in the rain the whole night. In the morning between 6 am to 1 pm, the wind is getting worse. So, we tried to escape from the dangerous situation in the morning about 6:00 am. It was very dangerous to escape because the roof (zinc) were flying and all the trees fell down. Anyhow, we left everything and we escaped. all the house in our Mission compound were damaged but no body died. only one lady suffered because the branch of the tree fell of upon here. By the grace of God , she is alive.
All my books get wet. My note books float in the water. We could not take anything with us when we tried to escape. We all are very sad because we suffered. But when we hear about the news of our Karen people in the delta area, our suffering is just nothing.
Nearly all the Karen people who live in the Lat Put Ta township suffered severely. Most of the villages were totally disappeared. the majority died in that disaster. We just come back from that area about three weeks ago. We were having a good time with them when we went there and give the Bible study from one village to another. But now nearly all our people died. Right now, I left my family and came to help the refugees who survive in Pwo Kayin Mission Compound in Pathein town. The ministers and youth in Pathein Myaung Mya association went there by their own boat and saved their lives and brought them back to Pathein in Pwo Kayin mission compound.
For the time being there are 268 people were saved and fed in our mission compound. But there are still nearly one hundreds people left without water and food in their area. So tomorrow, if we can get boat, we will go and save the rest people. When we come back , there will be more than 300 people. Right now we are trying to collect the money, the food, the clothes, and the medicines. We get some but it is not enough for them. it cost about 200 $ per day just to feed about 268 people. For the long run, they will all die if they do not get support from out side . So, if you know any friends who is interested in helping them by hearing the cry and suffering of Our Lord Jesus through these people. These people really need your loving care, support and prayers.
The problem is that we can not collect the deta detail. According to my friends, there will be more than 100,000 people died and compare to them, Su Na Mi is just nothing. The rest people are also suffering a lot because they do not get water, food, and they are also suffering from diseases. If you would like to help them, you can get in touch with me kokolaymai@gmail.com or you can call Rev. Mahn Tun Than who is the general secretary of Pathein Myaung Mya association with his phone no. of 09855 2228 and 042-21185.
PS. Please forward this message to anyone you know.
Love and Peace,
ko ko
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| i just pray that i can survive our annual board meeting. =)
at least, they serve us really good food, that is something to look forward to.
i found a centipede in my apartment yesterday. now that i know that they eat spiders, i didn't freak out, i just chased it outside.
i'm so bored of being at home!!!! sorry for my complaining, but really, so bored of being at home.
on the upside, i have a lot of work to do for the board meeting, so at least it keeps me busy. i'm going to pack really really light so that i can manage to carry my suitcase. i'm so weak now, it's really strange. today, i weighed 99.5 pounds. that's actually up a bit from what it was. i'm not too worried, though because later on i'm supposed to gain weight. i just hope i go back to normal and then stop. i don't want to have to try to loose weight after this is all over. i'm tired, i don't want to have to exert any more energy than i have to =). i wanted to do all this stuff this weekend, but. . i guess not. guess i'll just wait till after NY to try to do stuff.
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| but my throat STILL is hurting. on Monday I suddenly dropped a couple pounds again, which probably means that i am STILL hyper thyroid.
can you believe this?? it's like this virus hangs ON and ON and ON and won't let go. i'm really kind of a bit freaked, I have to travel to NYC for 5 days next week for work, and i'm really hoping that i will be OK. tonight, i am tired and i'm going to go to bed. . . =) i may wake up to watch LOST. otherwise, i'll wonder what happened.
oh yeah, welcome back hpeng!! glad to see another face on xanga! =)
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| just checking in. i was able to see the endocrinologist (i have trouble saying that word) yesterday - yay miracles do happen - and they poked me a bunch of times and took a bunch of stuff out of me to test, and gave me steroids to make me feel better. he was surprised i wasn't worse off (really, it could be worse than this??). Apparently, this thing is supposed to be super-ultra-crazy painful, and I could be sicker than I am (really?). so i know it must just be prayer that is keeping me afloat. =) so they are going to monitor me and see how my thyroid levels do. Fortunately, it hasn't gone too crazy. thanks!!! for your prayers, i realized yesterday that i could be so much worse, and i know it just has to be prayer keeping me from going that way! =)
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