Tsunami

Cale’s prayer tonight was “Jesus, please help Japan since there is a big wave.  Please dry it up so that the people can live.”

There is a tsunami that is supposed to hit Jayapura tonight.  It was causing quite a bit of uneasiness here.  There was a team from Jayapura that came to play our girls basketball team.  They stopped in the middle of the game because many of their family was being evacuated and the parents were calling on cells to try and get their kids home.  If you think about it, it would have been safer to have them stay here.  We have mountains around us, we are farther from the ocean, and we are at a high elevation.  But, I think they thought they would be safer if they were together.  Our high schoolers are supposed to go to the beach tomorrow for a retreat, but there is a good chance that will not happen now.  One guy said that the water was already starting to recede out of Humboldt Bay.  We have been there many times.

So please keep the people of Papua in your prayers when you are praying for all those hit with the earthquake and the tsunamis.  I will let you know when I hear anything.

Rachel