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ADRA Philippines sent a service request November 14, for me to help out in Panay Island for 2 weeks. So that night, I flew from Manila to Iloilo City. This blog is my personal testimony. 

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Video Summary of my 2 weeks...

12/15/2013

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Super typhoon Haiyan (local name Yolanda) hit Nov 8, 2013. Seven days later, after a 2 week service request was sent to AIIAS for me, ADRA sent me to help out in the island of Panay. This are some of the things I did and saw in my 2 weeks stay there. 

The new people I met (and will remember... )
1. Frank Brenda - ADRA Germany
2. Rowena Sugay - ADRA Canada
3. Kimee Echavez Santiago - volunteer from Bacolod 
4. Jesse Bliss - Loma Linda University, School of Public Health
5. Brett McPherson - Risk Management
6. Geoff White - photographer extraordinaire from Australia :D
7. Braden Blyde - ADRA Australia
8. Japhet Musico - volunteer from Mindoro 
9. Gerson "Boyet" Custodio - volunteer from Roxas, Capiz

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Happy Sabbath!

11/22/2013

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Happy Sabbath friends and family all over the world!

This is my 2nd Sabbath in Panay Island, and I was finally able to visit a beach that was untinted with Yolanda's wrath. Plus a meal (which was our lunch and supper) courtesy of Jessie Bliss, from Loma Linda University School of Public Health (specializing in... um... disaster response... I think.. :D ). 

A beautiful way to start the Sabbath!
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Day 8 - ADRA at the PDRRMC Command Center

11/22/2013

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I sit here at the head of this room and see all more than 60 people urgently typing into their laptops, barely noticing that it is already 1:30pm and lunch has already passed. Hunger is a small thing compared to the goal that we are trying to achieve. Flunctuating electricy causing the occassional blackout passes without incident because everyone is engrossed in helping the Filipino people recover from the devasted caused by supertyphoon Haiyan 14 days ago.  

And I'm proud to be one who have the priviledge to actually witness it.

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Post by Aimee Grace B Tapeceria.
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A message to the AUP Community

11/20/2013

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Post by Aimee Grace B Tapeceria.
As ADRA was assessing the coastal barangays last November 20, we met a group of Adventists in the municipality of Concepcion, whose homes were totally washed away and were living in evacuation centers. 

One was a former AUP Theology student who wasnt able to finish his studies because his sponsor got sick. He asks for help and thanks all his teachers and friends of his while he studied there. 

He says that even he does not meet you here, he hopes to meet you all in heaven.
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From Iloilo City, Iloilo to Roxas City, Capiz

11/19/2013

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Moving the base camp from Iloilo City to Roxas City with representatives from ADRA Canada (Rowena Sugay, and Kimee Santiago), ADRA Germany (Frank Brenda), and ADRA Philippines (May Ann Belga and me).  As we arrived in Roxas City the same time as the truck bring the REDO machine (water purifier) from Cavite. 
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DAY 1 - The start of a new adventure

11/14/2013

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9:01pm, November 14, 2013, a Thursday. 
Seat 23A of Cebu Pacific flight 5J 461 bound for Iloilo City.  

I remember last week, before I left work, I had informed my officemate that I wasn't going to go to work the next morning because I was expecting Typhoon Haiyan (local name Yolanda) to be in full effect in a couple of hours (but I did go to work the next morning).

A week later, I am saying the same thing. I am not going to go to work tomorrow, but that is because by tonight, I am bound for Iloilo City. 

It was just last night that the option of actually taking my annual vacation 2 weeks ahead of time, to be able to volunteer for ADRA for their Emergency Response in the Visayas area, and right now, I am flying at 35,000ft in a plane that is about to descend on a city that I have never been to, to help out in the aftermath of one of the strongest and devastating typhoons to EVER make landfall. 

I do not know what I will see, nor do I want to guess....  but I know I am about to begin an experience that I will remember for the rest of my life. 

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All that I am, all that I have, I lay them down before You, oh Lord. 
All my regrets, all my acclaims, my heart and my hand, I give them to You... 

Lord, I offer my life to you, everything I've been through, to use it for Your glory, 
Lord, I offer my days to you, lifting my praise to You, as a pleasing sacrifice... 
Lord I offer You my life. 

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