… and praying for those who are suffering.

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I was moved by this picture of two Chilean women, with their children, at dawn. They are just outside of their houses, which were near the epicenter of the earthquake. All night, sitting up, worried about aftershocks and without shelter.

And for a current report on the complete breakdown in Haiti:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/01/opinion/01mon4.html?ref=todayspaper

If part of your discipleship includes giving money towards relief of either of these disasters, please remember that when you give a dollar to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Disaster Response and/or Lutheran World Relief, more than 90 cents of that dollar gets to direct aid.  (That’s not true with many of the more publicized aid organizations, which have much higher overhead.)