Oct 20, 2022
Send Hope to Southwest Florida![]()
Where do you get groceries when you cannot leave your home and the local market has been reduced to rubble?
How do you eat when the power’s not on and the food in your fridge spoiled days ago?
To whom do you turn when a hurricane rips through your home, your belongings, your neighborhood … and you’re surrounded or buried in debris?
“Normal life” is impossible for many Southwest Floridians today.
“Normal” is something we often take for granted—until disaster strikes and turns our world upside down.
Our on-site partners now ministering in communities hardest hit by Hurricane Ian are working around the clock to provide food, clean water, clothing, shelter—the very foundations of help and hope—amid all the destruction.
Yesterday, I saw a video of a hard-hit area. There was nothing left to salvage. One of our staff members drove along a road where couches, chairs, tables and other personal belongings were piled up in front of house after house. In many places you might see trees and branches in large piles, but here you see the lives of people strewn along the street.
Individuals and families who have lost everything are desperate for some semblance of “normal” … and your compassion right now helps provide it as longer-term recovery efforts get under way.
Together, let’s embrace what Matthew 25:35-40 describes as the Lord’s view of people who need the very basics for survival:
“For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me …
“‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’”
I am deeply grateful for your compassionate response in these trying times for Southwest Floridians.
Mat Staver
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