Let’s Overcome Hunger With Love

Dear Pastors, Churches, and Friends of Nexus, Greetings!

Nexus has been joining hands with you in the “Bring Relief to the Hungry” Project. The current stage of the project is called “Kairos Opportunity.”

We are grateful to God, and we also thank Nexus’ partners for your prayers and gifts! We’ve already sent a thousand food packets to Q City, Pakistan, and to outlying villages; in Myanmar we provided 200 children in the orphanage one month’s food. As their disaster situation remains severe. The needs are immense. But we will not give up! We can send one more food packet and bless one more family with the Lord’s love and grace; through this distribution project, we can spread God’s limitless love a little farther. We can overcome hunger with Love! Thank you all again for your support and your prayers!

Genesis 7:4 “For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living thing that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.”

A Baby Born In a Destructive Flood

On August 14 during the heavy rains, Sulan’s daughter Kainat Solangi was born. Ever since that day, the hard rains have been practically constant. Holding her 24-day-old baby, Sulan said she was worried about having borne a daughter — she and her five children were hungry and ill; but her husband, a day laborer, couldn’t get any work.

The Biblical account of the forty days and nights when the flood waters poured down and broke all records presents us with a challenge: How should we deal with disaster? How well do we humans understand God’s power and authority?

Since June, Pakistan’s record flooding has killed more than 1600 people, and huge tracts of land remain underwater. About 33 million people are threatened with cholera, dengue fever, and other diseases spread by the water. In the worst-affected areas, floodwaters may take as long as six months to recede entirely.

This disaster which has occurred in Pakistan will not remain only in this country – Pakistan’s output of greenhouse gases is not even 1% of the world’s total.

Summer, 1998 A“Once-In-a-Century”Super-Flood disaster in China occurred on the Yangtze River as well as the Songhua, Nenjiang, and other major tributaries. It killed about 4,150 people.

First Flood Relief Supplies: Nexus Workers Glen and his wife Maya arrived in the disaster area on September 4. Together with the local church, they distributed food portions which included wheat, rice, oil, sugar, and salt.

Q City — A Journey of Gratefulness — Glen and Maya

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Peace to you all!

Q City is a dangerous city where non-Pakistanis cannot stay. However, due to the flooding, we were not only received but were accompanied by police who acted as our personal bodyguards.

Long, continuous periods of heavy rain caused flooding, landslides, and rockslides in Baluchistan and Sindh Provinces. Millions of disaster victims and Afghani refugees have been made shelter-less wanderers – among whom, of course, are many brothers and sisters in the Lord.

Q City seems to be exactly like a suburban area of a city in Xinjiang Province except for one aspect: only one road, one railroad line, and one main bridge connect Q City with the rest of the country; and its electric power comes from outside the province. Floods have destroyed public facilities, roads, electric power facilities, the internet, and gas lines, leaving Q City alone, cut off from the rest of the country. Of course, you can imagine what has happened to people living here without rice, without flour, without oil … How can they survive?

A week before our trip, I began contacting a brother here every day so we would know the situation. The day we set out, electric power and gas still had not been restored.

Perhaps you don’t remember the deaths of a Chinese missionary couple whose blood was spilt in this city not long ago. But when my father, and also Johnny, shared their hearts, my wife and I were also moved, so we decided to come help the brothers and sisters here. But to be honest we both were a little bit worried because we have two daughters, one seven years old and the other eight months. Both are so young! If by some chance the unexpected should happen to us, they might be left without a complete family. But after prayer we still decided to go because we knew the people there need help!

We thank God that the Good Shepherd was with us and led us all the way! We arrived safe and sound in Q City and were received by a local church pastor. Along the way as we saw roads, houses, and factories destroyed by the flooding. As we thought of the suffering of brothers and sisters whose homes had been destroyed by the flood, our hearts couldn’t help weeping for them.

We arrived on a Sunday. After church we went out and began looking for supplies. From then until about 10 p.m., we looked in different shops and supermarkets; but due to the shortages we were not able to buy the most important thing — wheat flour to make bread. The second day we went out all day and searched in all the big and small markets we could find; but at the end of the day, all we could do was wait to see if what merchants had promised us would come to pass. At that point we prayed urgently and asked God to open a way for us — we couldn’t do what we had come to do! But with God, all things are possible! On the third day, basically we were able to obtain everything we needed; on the fourth, we picked up the supplies, divided them up, and packaged them to prepare for the work of distributing them the next day. The fifth day, which was just one day before we were scheduled to leave, we helped with the distribution of the food portions. When we saw those weary brothers and sisters getting the food supplies, their faces all looking so blessed and satisfied, we knew the Lord had led the two of us in accordance with His good pleasure! Early the following day, we left to return home. We thank Pastor Johnson and his family, who accompanied us everywhere, and the brothers and sisters there. What we ourselves did was almost nothing, but at the end God’s love had warmed the hearts of brothers and sisters there!

Sincerely, Glen and Maya

Third Distribution:

On September 27, Glen and Maya went to another severely affected disaster area in southeastern Pakistan to help a local Nexus coworker distribute food.

Please pray for the disaster situation, especially for the farmers and the poor people. The farmers have lost their harvest, and the flood has washed away the few belongings that the poor people had. Some have been bitten by water snakes, been infected by water-borne disease, or are in danger from sewage-tainted water, cholera, Dengue fever and other disease. May the Lord protect them from disease, provide them with needed food, and meet all the needs!

May God help the local government repair railroads, bridges, and roads washed away so they can reconnect with the outside world, and so that relief supplies can be sent in and given into the hands of disaster victims!

Kairos is a Greek word meaning “God’s Special Time,” His “Golden Opportunity”- The fleeting Chance of a Lifetime!

Behold!  At the “Kairos” time … my words shall be fulfilled. Luke 1:20

Please support the “Bring Relief to the Hungry” Project!  Let’s overcome hunger with Love: Donate a food packet — help a family — together, let’s SAY NO to hunger!

Sincerely, Nexus Mission

We present to YOU our heart-felt invitation at this vital “Kairos” time: Please pray, and please give!

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