It has been a very fruitful weekend for relief /recovery work for northern Panay by the RiverView SDA church, ACS, as well as by PAMAS and HCBN volunteers. Purchases of relief goods were done the whole of last Friday and after Sabbath morning services at RiverView, packing began.

Over the last few weeks, it seems like we’ve had an uncharacteristic amount of “close calls”. Last Tuesday I had an accident with a motorcyclist as I was driving out to Ogle to wrap some plastic around a giant satellite dish that I was sending up to Kamarang.

Dear Friends,

As we speak, the weather on the areas affected by STY Haiyan are now under a “Tropical Easterly Wave”. It is very bothering that people with nothing are exposed to yesterdays heat and now rain for the next 24 hours.

Fifty years ago this past Friday I ate breakfast with then President John F Kennedy three hours before he was assassinated.