Help for Relief in Peru

In 2nd Corinthians 8, Paul reports how wonderfully generous the Macedonian church has been. One could very easily substitute St. John’s congregation into that passage. You are such a model for the diocese (which is not unnoticed, by the way) of open handedness with our resources both at home and abroad. That very generosity makes us reluctant to “go to the well” too often but at the same time it assures us that you actually delight to help others in dire situations.
Well, our fellow Christians in Peru are in dire straits and their flu “season,” which is seeming to correspond to the COVID 19 season, is just starting in Lima. The infection rate has climbed rapidly just in the last week from 8,000 to now approaching 30,000 with the rise in deaths following. This has ended employment for almost all of parishioners since most are in menial and cottage shop industries. Unable to work and with no governmental safety net to speak of, health care is difficult and food and even water supplies in the small towns and barrios are depleted already.
The Global Missions Committee has, of course, cancelled all of our upcoming mission trips and is sending a substantial part of our resources immediately to Bishop Aguilar for relief work. This letter is to both inform you of what is going on in Lima and to ask you to consider contributing to this relief work. We have built a solid, loving relationship of trust with the Bishop and his priests and have the utmost confidence that any funds to his diocese will be distributed specifically to those in need.
Thank you for your extraordinary generosity in the past and for your open hearts and hands now even while we ourselves are a bit anxious about our own future.
You are a tribute to Christ.
Well, our fellow Christians in Peru are in dire straits and their flu “season,” which is seeming to correspond to the COVID 19 season, is just starting in Lima. The infection rate has climbed rapidly just in the last week from 8,000 to now approaching 30,000 with the rise in deaths following. This has ended employment for almost all of parishioners since most are in menial and cottage shop industries. Unable to work and with no governmental safety net to speak of, health care is difficult and food and even water supplies in the small towns and barrios are depleted already.
The Global Missions Committee has, of course, cancelled all of our upcoming mission trips and is sending a substantial part of our resources immediately to Bishop Aguilar for relief work. This letter is to both inform you of what is going on in Lima and to ask you to consider contributing to this relief work. We have built a solid, loving relationship of trust with the Bishop and his priests and have the utmost confidence that any funds to his diocese will be distributed specifically to those in need.
Thank you for your extraordinary generosity in the past and for your open hearts and hands now even while we ourselves are a bit anxious about our own future.
You are a tribute to Christ.
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