Stan Posted January 1, 2005 Share Posted January 1, 2005 HINT THE PEARL OF THE PACIFIC STRIKES AGAIN <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> Exporter sets sail with tsunami donations A ship carrying 100 tonnes of aid for tsunami victims has left the West Australian port of Geraldton for Indonesia. The shipment was organised by a local livestock exporter, and is expected to arrive in northern Sumatra in about four days. One of the organisers, Beryl Carpenter from the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Perth, says they have been overwhelmed with donations. She says blankets, tents, generators, medical supplies and clothing are among the items that are now being sent. "At one stage there we counted 80 cars just lined up waiting to unload," she said. "Just people coming in saying can we give you some help, which was much appreciated. "It was just overwhelming, and I think that's about the only word I can think that really describes it." SOURCE Quote If you receive benefit to being here please help out with expenses. https://www.paypal.me/clubadventist Administrator of a few websites like https://adventistdating.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicodema Posted January 1, 2005 Share Posted January 1, 2005 Go Beryl!!! I sure do miss her posts but I'm glad to know she's out there doing good things. God bless that true Christian lady, she is a real gem!!! Quote "After such knowledge, what forgiveness?" -- T.S. Eliot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cricket Posted January 1, 2005 Share Posted January 1, 2005 We need more like her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amelia Posted January 1, 2005 Share Posted January 1, 2005 AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!! Quote <p><span style="color:#0000FF;"><span style="font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-style:italic;">"Do not use harmful words, but only helpful words, the kind that build up and provide what is needed, so that what you say will do good to those who hear you."</span></span> Eph 4:29</span><br><br><img src="http://banners.wunderground.com/weathersticker/gizmotimetemp_both/US/OR/Fairview.gif" alt="Fairview.gif"> Fairview Or</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil D Posted January 1, 2005 Share Posted January 1, 2005 Way cool! You go, girl! Quote Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. George Bernard Shaw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fran Posted January 2, 2005 Share Posted January 2, 2005 Praise God for the speed in the assistance. God does care. Help should never be delayed by any agency or person. Give it direct to the source like these people. I stand in Awe! Quote The greatest want of the world is the want of men who will not be bought or sold, men who in their inmost souls are true & honest, men who do not fear to call sin by its right name, men whose conscience is as true to duty..., men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.{Ed 57.3} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beryl Posted January 8, 2005 Share Posted January 8, 2005 Thank you all for your kind words. Sorry that I have not been around a lot lately. Apart from being a bit busy (!!), my laptop modem has been giving all kinds of trouble, eventually diagnosed as an "unstable modem" -- how dare it! Anyway, I am now hooked up to an external modem, and working again. This tsumani has wrought such devastation! Whole towns just wiped off the map! We will never know the complete loss of life. The day after it occured I received a phonecall from a friend who told me that I should phone a certain man who who just spoken on radio. She felt that we could offer some help. So (always obedient <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/icon_salut.gif" alt="" />), I did as asked. That is when I first spoke to Geoff Davy, a cattle exporter, who was due to deliver 2,300 head of cattle to a port on the opposite side to the tsumani of the most devastated island in Indonesia. He had made the snap decision to devote the top deck of the ship to humanitarian supplies -- and he was leaving in 2 1/2 days' time from a port 5 hours' travel time from Perth! Soon he was back on air announcing his success at finding someone willing to collect the supplies. My contact phone number was given out -- and for the last 10 days I have hardly had my ear away from the mobile phone since -- that is except for Sabbaths when it was shut down. By the end of the next day we had worked a 20 hour day, received an inestimable amount of goods -- food, clothing, tents, generators, etd. etc. 55 pallets of goods, and 3 bales of clothes were delivered on time! During that time we were visited by reporters, TV station reporters, and newspaper reporters. During that whole day our every need was supplied. If we were running short of packing tape it seemed that someone had anticipated our need and "just happened" to arrive with a big box of it. And that same story could be told of every need -- thay were all supplied as needed. Truck operators offered their services -- free of charge. By Friday morning we had dispatched our last load, thinking the task done -- but the public had only just warmed up! The radio and TV stations kept telling people to bring their things to the Seventh-day Adventists. We were operating on the other side of Australia from the ADRA Head Office, and really striking out on our own, as they, along with most other charities, were asking, not for goods, but for cash. We had the goods -- but no cash! But the Lord again supplied our need! Before the day was out a Catholic Priest, also collecting goods to dispatch overseas, sent me a cheque for $5000 because he felt that I needed it! It was deposited in a special account at our Conference Office for use in this effort. T cut a very long story short, God is still supplying our needs. Today I spoke during Sabbath school in a church near my own. No requests were made -- just stories of God's leading, but afterwards 2 business men offered to pay for a container!It looks as though our task is not yet finished. We have shifted our focus from Indonesia, where ships are banked up in the port, and containers banked up on the wharves. We are now in contact with our own ADRA "man on the ground", in Sri Lanka, which, proportionately, suffered a greater loss of life. We are working to supply his needs as they occur. I could go on telling of God's leading, in both big and little things. Throughout the entire state individuals are planning events at which people are asked to bring needed articles for us to distribute as we can. People who had never heard of Adventists before are now offering us help. I don't know how long this will continue -- but we plan to continue until the Lord tells us we have done enough. I will keep in touch. God bless you each one, Beryl Quote "Grace is God doing for us, in us and through us that which He requires of us but which is impossible for us to do in or for ourselves." But He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." 2 Cor. 12:9. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicodema Posted January 8, 2005 Share Posted January 8, 2005 Beryl thanks for your "front line" report! It must be exciting, and such a blessing, to be so hands-on in such an important work. Though of course we know it is hard work. Be sure to take care of you as well! Quote "After such knowledge, what forgiveness?" -- T.S. Eliot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Nan Posted January 8, 2005 Moderators Share Posted January 8, 2005 Amen to Nico's post, Beryl. It seems for me donating in cash is the way to go - and it is much less exhausting. And I suspect lesss satisfying. The call in church for us yesterday - aside from the obvious - was for volunteers to man the ADRA phonelines during the week. They are still getting lots of calls, which is wonderful. I hope eventually you get some feedback on how your efforts have helped "on the ground". God bless you and your team. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicodema Posted January 8, 2005 Share Posted January 8, 2005 Ah the mystery of the Land Down Under ... it is mid-Sabbath afternoon HERE yet you say Sabbath was yesterday for you!! So when the Sunday laws come, I will just tell them I observe Australian Sunday!! LOL. Quote "After such knowledge, what forgiveness?" -- T.S. Eliot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil D Posted January 8, 2005 Share Posted January 8, 2005 Quote: Thank you all for your kind words. Sorry that I have not been around a lot lately. Apart from being a bit busy!! Speaking in a very manly fashion, uh Duh!!!! I am aware of a couple of small efforts here in my locallity that is attempting to raise money to go to the relief effort. And we will prolly send it to ADRA as they are in need of the offering. Beryl, you are doing wonderfully. Please take care of yourself and come back to give us another update in a week or two. It gives us some perspective from someone from the front lines. Also, is there someone in one of the affected countries, that can give us a report of the devestation there? Who was affected the most? How are our brothern in those countrys fairing? A famous phrase in C/A- Enquiring minds want to know.... Thanks... Quote Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. George Bernard Shaw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Nan Posted January 8, 2005 Moderators Share Posted January 8, 2005 </font><blockquote><font class="small">Quote:</font><hr /> Ah the mystery of the Land Down Under ... it is mid-Sabbath afternoon HERE yet you say Sabbath was yesterday for you!! So when the Sunday laws come, I will just tell them I observe Australian Sunday!! LOL. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <hr /></blockquote><font class="post"> Yes it is 7 am Sunday here and we are about to embark on the morning walk. That is a clever idea for the Sunday laws Nico. It would not work quite as well here though, we would have to say we were worshipping on the American Friday and then they would think we were of an entirely different religious persuasion <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldona Posted January 8, 2005 Share Posted January 8, 2005 </font><blockquote><font class="small">Quote:</font><hr /> It seems for me donating in cash is the way to go - and it is much less exhausting. And I suspect lesss satisfying. <hr /></blockquote><font class="post"> Thank you for your update, Beryl! And I agree with Nan's comment above - it seems all of the charities want us to donate in cash, not in goods. I can understand why, with shipping costs, the need to source goods locally to avoid disrupting the economies of the stricken countries, etc. But it's much more satisfying to put together a car-load of clothes, food, etc...actually selecting the items and trying to imagine what needs there are out there and what items are likely to be useful. Here in Melbourne the local Sri Lankan community is collecting goods, and I have been trying to help out. I took an empty box to work and marked it "For The Tsunami Disaster Victims" - was kind of hoping that our staff would contribute a few cans of food or a couple of bandages - before I knew it, my secretary had typed up a letter under my name and distributed it to all the businesses up & down the street. All week we have been inundated with stuff and I have been ferrying car-loads of goods to the Sri Lankan community house. Now the word has spread and pharmacies in other suburbs are getting involved - and we're getting boxes of medicines, dressings, bandages, antiseptics... I'm sure you've seen first hand how what seems like a small effort all of a sudden snowballs and takes on a momentum of its own... I'll be watching your updates carefully, because our Sri Lankan friends are having trouble finding shipping services. Malaysian Airlines was carrying some freight for them but they have refused to take clothing. Now they are getting reports of aid agencies on the ground in Sri Lanka desperate for clothing, while it is buildingup in warehouses here with no way of getting it over. Watch this space... aldona Quote www.asrc.org.au (Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, Melbourne)Helping over 2000 refugees & asylum seekers each monthIMSLP/Petrucci Music LibraryThe Public Domain Music Score Library - Free Sheet Music DownloadsLooking for classical sheet music? Try IMSLP first! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 8, 2005 Share Posted January 8, 2005 I would like to donate the contents of my garage.. no cars there..too much STUFF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil D Posted January 8, 2005 Share Posted January 8, 2005 Quote: I would like to donate the contents of my garage.. I am sorry, Jimbob, but the snow equipment just wouldn't be proper....Nor the ice skating equipment..... Quote Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. George Bernard Shaw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 8, 2005 Share Posted January 8, 2005 But..but..but Neil... couldn't some person in Bagladesh put the items on Ebay ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil D Posted January 8, 2005 Share Posted January 8, 2005 Do they have Ebay in Bangladesh???? As for the ice skates, they probably will tear them down to use as martial arts weapons in some cheap chineese movie! Quote Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. George Bernard Shaw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cricket Posted January 9, 2005 Share Posted January 9, 2005 Maybe they don't have ebay in Bangledesh, but we've got ebay in America. Sell it here (for a better price) and then donate the money--something they can really use! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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