Hope After the Hurricane

The storm has been over for weeks … 

But Hurricane Ian is still impacting the daily—even hourly—lives of countless victims.

According to PBS NewsHour, survivors feel lost in more ways than one as they make their way through the rubble:

• “With her home gone and all her belongings trashed by Hurricane Ian, Alice Pujols wept as she picked through soggy clothes, toys and overturned furniture piled head-high outside a stranger’s house, looking to salvage something—anything—for her four children and herself. ‘I’m trying to make it to the next day,’ she said. ‘That’s all I can do.’”

• “On Pine Island, just off the Florida mainland where Ian first struck, an emotional Alan Bickford said … what lay before him was bleak: the floors of his home were coated in stinky muck and his yard was littered with framed photos, furniture and other items he’d hauled outside. ‘It’s like a death of a loved one. The pain just comes and goes,’ he said. ‘There’s times when there are these little glimmers or slivers of hope. And then everything falls apart.’”

Please make a generous donation today to Liberty Relief International for hurricane victims like Alice, Alan and thousands of others—people who can only rely on the generous compassion of friends like you.

LRI has partnered with relief organizations providing practical help and hope in real time in devastated communities, right in the middle of the worst-hit areas. Caring people, as you read these words, are ministering, feeding, clothing and counseling those who are homeless and cannot meet their own needs right now.

One partner is providing tens of thousands of hot, nourishing meals daily to victims and first responders …

Another is helping with debris removal, damage mitigation and distribution of water, hygiene supplies and more.

If you have already given toward this effort, you have my heartfelt thanks.

If you haven’t had the opportunity yet, please don’t wait. Give immediately.

Thank you.

Mat Staver