Crash Command Center: DAY 3 (in progress)

Well friends...I've made it two day three! And I'm not glowing yet!!

General update on the situation in Japan:

Samaritan's Purse is sending a plane full hundreds of tons of supplies to Sendai Airport. CRASH is sending up vehicles to receive and distribute the supplies.

Nuclear Situation: Yep... its still happening. Keep praying for those working at the plant and those in charge.

They are starting to get electricity to some of the places up north. Sendai has about 60% now.

They just pulled an elderly woman and her grandson out of the rubble of their home after being trapped for 10 days! They got trapped next to the fridge, YAY!

CRASH currently has quite a few teams in the quake/tsunami area, and are in the process of setting up base camps that will serve as centers to base teams and distribute supplies.

The situation is still incredibly dire for those in the evacuation sites. There are miles and miles of lines every time there is a rumor that a convenient store is going to open. There are tons of elderly, families, disabled people, etc, without proper supplies.

Story!!!
I know a family back in the US who has been saving money to re-floor their house for years, and had finally saved the money to be able to do it. The floor is in pretty dire need of being redone. But instead of a new floor, the family donated all of the money to help those who have lost everything...entire homes, their families, their business, hope. PEOPLE! That's what the kingdom of God looks like. That's what it looks like to give till it hurts. That's what it looks like to store up treasure in heaven. Anyone wanna out do them?

ME:
Its my third day working at the CRASH command center. I'm working in Volunteer Coordination, which means I'm currently overseeing a team of 6 other volunteers who are helping me process and sort through people who have volunteered to come help, in order to put together teams to send into the earthquake/tsunami area. Its a bit stressful, and very computer intensive, but almost exactly what I did when I worked at my old job at 3E Company, so thank you Joe Dolan for preparing me for this!!

I've been hanging out with a smaller group in the evenings (not related to Crash) who have been making daily runs into Sendai to truck in supplies. They leave in the middle of the night, arrive in the morning, drop off the supplies and love on people and help out all day, and then drive back at night (in order to not stay their too long and drain supplies, and to come back and pick more stuff up). The pictures and stories are heartbreaking. The same people have been making most of the runs, so they are pretty tired! Which means they are probably going to let some of us women folk make a run on Thursday or Friday. After being in the office 12 hours a day, I think it will be really nice to get my hands dirty.

PRAY FOR US!!!!!!
Efficiency!!
Clarity of thought!!
Protection from radiation!!
Ability to move goods, and info quickly to those who need them!

PRAY FOR JAPAN!!!!!!!!!!!! May many receive help, hope and the LOVE of JESUS!