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Disaster Relief

Loose Lips Really Will Sink This Ship

By William Perkins

By now there’s virtually no one in America who hasn’t heard about the tsunami that swept through south Asia on the day after Christmas in 2004. The bone-chilling images of terrified people trying in vain to outrun the massive wall of water are stomach-churning.

The United States was one of the first countries to respond to the humanitarian crisis and is providing an astronomical percentage of the manpower and treasure assisting the survivors.

Southern Baptists are there. They won’t be featured in the headlines or spotlighted on the nightly television news, but they are there. In areas where they had to keep their heads down even before the tsunami disaster, they are hard at work to coordinate the Southern Baptist response.
Teams of trained Southern Baptist disaster relief workers are gearing up for the long-term recovery effort, Mississippi Baptists included. They will be working …

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