Disaster Relief report - Tuesday, January 11, 2005
Across Pacific & Asia





STRATEGIC WORLD IMPACT ASSISTS INDONESIAN CHURCH
TO AID TSUNAMI-DISPLACED MUSLIMS




STRATEGIC WORLD IMPACT

BARTLESVILLE, OK (ANS) -- Strategic World Impact is moving in to join the Church in the Banda Aceh (pronounced Ahchay) Province on Indonesia’s Sumatra Island to assist those who have been most affected by the earthquake and Tsunami disaster.

SWI President Kevin Turner will be on the ground and available via satellite phone to give the most up to date information as he and SWI DART (Disaster Assistance Response Teams) Team leaders assess the situation and help those in need.

This Muslim region has been the site of ongoing civil conflict, religious infighting and self-imposed fundamentalist Islamic isolation. The Christian Church has been oppressed and the people have been ruled with an iron Islamic fist.

As a result of the disaster, at least two Christian churches have been burned – Muslims believe the disaster happened around Christmas as an example of Allah’s wrath against them for allowing Christian ‘infidels’ among them.

SWI will strategically work alongside the Church to take the Gospel to those who are suffering in the wake of this disaster and searching for comfort, as well as, take the physical needs. The SWI team will be working with a senior leader of the Indonesian Church in that region.

The Banda Aceh Province is the hardest-hit region – it took several days for anyone to realize the extent of its condition as the isolationist Islamic leaders resisted media coverage and aid.

“There is no power, little fresh water, dwindling fuel and the risk of a serious disease epidemic is growing exponentially,” SWI’s Vice President of Operations David Vermeesch said.

The leaders of the Aceh province resisted help for three days but now it appears that God has opened doors for assistance and the Gospel to be taken in. SWI is taking the opportunity by sending in their DART Teams.

Strategic World Impact specializes in complex humanitarian emergencies where a strategic response can be the key to unlock the door of closed, restricted and war torn nations. They work in areas where the body of Christ is persecuted, the Gospel restricted and areas where, due to hostile situations, the people face eternity each day.



For more information contact:
Strategic World Impact - David Vermeesch or Kim Harris
P.O. Box 3037 - Bartlesville, OK 74006
Telephone: (918) 336-8400 - Fax: (918) 336-8011
E-mail: team@swi.org  -  Website: www.swi.org


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