Two weeks have passed since the tremendous earthquake, devastating tsunami and radiation leakage. The death toll has topped 10,000, there are over 17,000 missing all feared dead. Dear friends, we must continue to pray, give, and prepare for more involvement. Locally things continue to return to normal with many shortages having ended. Rolling power outages continue in Tokyo (and here today). But up north transportation is in a shambles, supplies limited, and people are without food and water (see relief team’s story below).
PRAY for the restoration of electrical power throughout the region and especially in the hard-hit areas. They announced today no rolling power blackouts in the Tohoku region at least for a month.
PRAY for the continual difficult and dangerous effort of restoring the vital functions at the nuclear power plants. Local and regional radiation leakage though not health threatening is still an issue.
PRAY that especially the young would be protected from any harmful exposure.