the city was battered by hard rains, that eventually flooded the metropolis, caused landslides and killed a few hundred people.
Rio has the perfect structure for treacherous condition under lots of heavy rain - there are millions of citizens that have set up precarious houses on the hillside; what we call FAVELAS
when we heard about the chaos in rio, we wondered what we could do to help. . .
so we launched our " i care " campaign. we went around the neighborhoods that surround our church, and our youth did 2 weekends of door-to-door knocking asking for clothes and cleaning supplies for Cariocas (the nickname for people from Rio)
we also asked the church members to bring donations.
then we had the challenge of finding a way to transport all the good to Rio.
we prayed about it over lunch at the mall last tuesday, then as we were leaving i met up with an old friend who works as the distribution manager for Frito Lay in Brazil. bingo! we are now in the process of setting up a pick up day/time for them to take our 3 pallets of donations.
our team-family leaves on thursday - Mark & i, barbara, sarah, and carioca (yes, we have our own Rio citizen with us! tokenism?) .we are joining a group of Christian volunteers that have been working non-stop for 1 month. we will distribute the donations, help gather information for a census and participate in evangelistic activities.
your prayers will carry us there and back.
more to come!
ali
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