What are you going to do?

We already know how to recover from all kinds of disasters. And I thank God for that. But we need to move to the next level. We need to recover from this disaster in a manner that goes well beyond our kinfolks' sake, and moves even closer to the Kingdom's sake. I hope ... that the foundation of our past relief efforts provide that building site where we can help more people recover from disasters of the soul that sin brings to their lives.

This is a golden opportunity for us to show our Baptist distinctives of believing the Bible and lifting up the Lord Jesus in ministry and reaching people for Jesus Christ.

Where do you go from here?

It looks like a bombed-out building from World War II,

And while I'm immensely thankful for the tons of Gospel seeds our convention's disaster relief ministries will plant; at the same time we must grasp this reality right now: Many of our sister churches are devastated and destroyed and they're in no shape to even begin to cultivate this field,