Christians Respond Promptly to China Earthquake

Joshua Goldberg
Gospel Herald Correspondent
Tue, May, 13 2008

The world watched in horror Monday as a jolting 7.9 magnitude earthquake – the latest in a series of global natural disasters – wreaked havoc across China’s southwestern Sichuan province.

The earthquake, the worst natural disaster to strike the Middle Kingdom in over three decades, left an estimated 12,000 dead, with thousands more reportedly injured and desperately trapped under the debris of fallen buildings. Xinhua News Agency reported that 18,645 people were still buried in and around Mianyang, a city about 60 miles east of the epicenter.

As condolences and aid began pouring in from other countries, Christian groups were among the first to respond.

World Vision, which has a community development center just 200 kilometers from the earthquake’s epicenter, was just one of the many Christian organizations that said that it had relief and aid workers ready to deploy at any notice. the rest