From Pastor Cedric Panis, La Union, The Philippines

Thanks for all your support and prayers...
Yes, that's what we all need, PRAYERS...

This incident made me cry this morning.. our church member came and gave a report on their barangay, their barangay captain died of landslide, mud covered him, and after two days, with the very foul smell, they dug up his body, and it was standing up.. along with his body was another victim, and the worst, yet another victim, a girl that died in this same mudslide was pregnant.. Ouch, this just made me cry... Then, our church member, as she was telling this story, they are neighbors with the victims, and that night, when they felt a very cold thing on their back, she thought it was a snake??, but when she woke up, the earth was moving, and sure enough, mudslide on her back, she immediately got up, took her children, ran as fast as they could... and praise God, they all went to church this morning... Wow...!!!

Then, our church, in the very low area, in front was flooded, in the back was flooded, and when I woke up, I got a bit worried about all our musical instruments to be under water already??? but guess what, the church where we hold service, which usually gets flooded on just a small rain prior to our church being there, wow, with this worst typhoon, the church did not even get flooded, just a very tiny wetness in the floor that we wiped with a rag, and all the musical equipments are safe... Nothing, yap, not a thing got damaged !!!, God is really good in our church where Marcy and you and Jonathan has preached already... that's why, we got God's protection. God loves us... YES !!!

We intend to buy 10 sacks of rice for La Union, a small amount that we can deal with... @ P1,300 per sack, that would be P13,000 pesos only... we can deal with that...

Art D's team is arriving on Tuesday night, and travel to La Union, and we start the crusade on Wednesday.. We will be doing 4 days in La Union and for the very first time, we will do 4 days in Pangasinan... and with the 4 barangays in Pangasinan, 3 of them are under water at this time, but when the day of the crusade comes, the water would have subsided and the basketball court would have dried up, so, on we go, and proceed to Pangasinan... we plan to bless the province by giving, not only FREE bibles for the follow-up, but surely, we will give them 1 or 2 kilos of rice, instead of merienda's... the more bible studies to be established, and churches planted in Pangasinan, for God's Kingdom and glory... Yes, the Victory is HIS, as always...

If we get 4 additional sacks of rice, then we can give one sack of rice to each of the barangay's that we will be doing the crusade there in Pangasinan. Yes, with this devastating Typhoon Parma, the more we can share God's word., and yes, we will be having a Victory Party in Pangasinan on Oct. 22, although I won't be there, as I will be in our Board Meeting, our crusade staff will be there.. We placed a P10 T. pesos budget, in additional to the Victory Party's budget, so we can invite all the host pastor's and all their workers.. must be a big Victory Party... haha... and even though I will miss it, my prayers are with the Team.

I thank CMC and everyone for all their support and prayers..

God bless...

Cedric

Tags: Landslides, relief, Churches, La Union, Pangasinan, flooding, CMC teams, Crusades

From Pastor Cedric Panis, La Union, The Philippines

The CMC church that we planted in Aringay, La Union, where Jonathan and Paul Klenner and myself, together with the rest of the crusade teams stayed, well there is a church going on there. They have been meeting every sunday, since Jonathan's Team did a crusade there in February of this year, Well, sad to say, this church is now underwater, up to shoulder high, around 4 feet of flood. And we here in La Union are still experiencing this Typhoon Pepeng/Parma as of this writing. (Oct. 8, 1:15 PM)

There were two dead in Barangay Alaska, Aringay due to typhoon Parma, where we also did a crusade in Aringay. Pastor Jun Tarlit is helping out there and also in Pangasinan where we have lots of CMC Pastors there also.

As of this writing, Pangasinan is flooded, 6 feet, in Umingan, Natividad, San Manuel, Tayug and roads are not passable.
The Agno dike high water is about to overflow. Villasis and even Tarlac are possible outlets if this dike overflows... Many agricultural crops have been lost already.

It has been raining here since Sept. 30th, and we really have lots of rain water already. Very strong winds and lots of rain here in La Union now.

Please pray for us.

Thanks.
Cedric

Tags: Aringay, Barangay Alaska, La Union, flooding, Pangasinan, Umingan, Natividad, San Manuel, tayug