RE: Arya Samaj Adopts Three Villages in Naggapattinam

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Second CommunicationReport of Arya Samaj leaders who supervised the relief work

Dear Arya brothers and sistersThis is the second communication, we are sharing

with you after the devastation caused by TSUNAMI WAVES that originated on 26th

December, 2004 from Indoneshia Sea and affected the coastal areas of Tamilnadu,

Pondicherry and Kerela. In the first letter, we informed you about the planning

and beginning of ARYA SAMAJ TSUMNAI RELIEF WORK in detail. Now we are sharing

the first hand experience of a high level team of Arya Samaj leaders that

visited the TSUNAMI affected areas, supervised and co-ordinated the relief work

carried on by the people of Arya Samaj youngsters and aged together. Shri Swami

Satyam (Working President of Sarvadeshik Arya Pratinidhi Sabha) Shri Vimal

Arya (Secretary), Shri Ved Vrat (Sr. Vice-president), Dr. Radha Krishan Verma

(President, Karnataka Arya Pratinidhi Sabha), Shri S.C. Gupta and Shri Arun

Abrol (Vice-President and Secretary of Mumbai Arya Pratinidhi Sabha) Shri

Vachonidhi Arya (Secretary of Gujarat Arya Pratinidhi Sabha) Shri Purushotam

Bhai Patel (President, Gandhi Dham Arya Samaj) and Shri Subodh Chandra

(President, Tamilnadu Arya Pratinidhi Sabha.) were the members of this team.The

members of this team met at Arya Samaj Central Chennai in the night of 2nd Jan.

2005. There was a detailed discussion till 1 o'clock in the night. Next morning

the discussion continued with Sh. Jaidev Ji and Sh. Jaggi ji of Arya Samaj

Central Chenai. There was a unanimous call to the people of Arya Samaj to

contribute all of their means and collections for ARYA SAMAJ TSUMNAI RELIEF

WORK through Sarvadeshik Arya Pratinidhi Sabha, the global orgnisation of Arya

Samaj.A Civil Engineer, Shri Manavalan and a D.A.V. School officer, Shri Bala

Guru along with Shri N. Phirunavakarsu of Arya Samaj Central Chennai, were

deputed by Shri Jaidev Ji to accompany the team.ARYA SAMAJ TSUMNAI RELIEF WORK

had already been started in some areas of Tamilnadu.Our Team reached

Pondicherry and met Sh. T. Muthusamy (I.R.S.) Dy. Commissioner of custom and

central excise. He assured the Arya Samaj, of all sorts of possible help.The

team was divided into two groups. One group visited Pumpuhar, a small township

on way to Naggapattinam where our workers of Arya Veer Dal had already been

camping since 30th of December, 2004 and providing help to the affected people.

Whereas the other team proceeded to met the senior officials of Tamilnadu

Government camping at the District Headquarters of Nagapattinam.We met Dr. Raja

Ram (I.A.S.) Director of Dist. Rural Development agency and Smt. Shiela Nayar

(I.A.S.) Secretary of the Relief Work Department. Shr. K. Pandu Rangan,

Agriculture Minister of Tamilnadu and Shri P.G. Narayanan, Member of

Parliament, Rajya Sabha were also present in this meeting. All these officers

were very happy to see the organisation like Arya Samaj with religious outlook,

working in this philanthropic arena. These officers provided their valuable

suggestions and assured all help.The Arya Samaj team visited a small village

Samundan Pettei behind the Dist. headquarters of Naggapattinam. We met the

people and saw the eradicated houses in this village. Immediately our team took

a decision to adopt this village. We proposed our plans in writing to the, District Rural Development Agency who agreed in principle. Later on,

a permission in writing was accorded by the government. Arya Samaj relief group

has started constructing the shelter houses for the affected

families.Construction work for 120 houses at Samandan Pettei has been started

after performing Yajna on 8th Jan, 2004. Confidence of the people in Arya Samaj

could be visible, when some well off Tamilians also offered their contribution

for the ARYA SAMAJ TSUMNAI RELIEF WORK.Our volunteers not only provided relief

materials, but in the spare time they are playing with the children as well.

Some of the Tamil speaking Aryas like Shri N. Phirunavakarsu is delivering

vedic preachings at many places.Shri Annaidasan, Secretary of Tamilnadu APS

alongwith Shri Savraj, a retd. teacher and active Arya Samajist are with the

villagers to guide and help them in taking care of the children who have lost

their parents. There are about 30 orphans in this small village alone. The

SAPS plans to start a separate orphanage in the near future after the

completion of immediate relief projects of constructing shelters and

distribution of relief materials.SAPS also plans to help the fisherman in

regaining their lost sources of earning. We are planning to help them join

agricultural activities.A gigantic task is ahead. We have given a call UNITED

WE STAND FOR THE TSUNAMI VICTIMS.Let us come toward. The biggest amount of

donation is too small to take care of all the victims. Therefore, we must

contribute maximum according to our might. Every unit of your contribution will

be a foundation for re-establishing the victim families for which Arya Samaj

through its apex body i.e. Sarvadeshik Arya Pratinidhi Sabha has shown its

commitment. Pool up maximum amount of your individual as well as collective

donations to ARYA SAMAJ TSUMNAI RELIEF FUND Please send your cheques/Pay orders

in the name of SARVADESHIK ARYA PRATINIDHI SABHA payable at New

Delhi.Contributions made to SAPS are exempted in India U/S 80G of the Income

Tax Act. You can ask for the certificate while sending your contribution.You

can visit www.sarvadeshik.com or www.worldaryasamaj.com to get the detailed

information and to have a glance at the photographs of relief activities.

(Capt. Dev Ratan Arya ) ( Vimal Arya )President

Secretary

 

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>[world-vedic] Evangelists and Tsunami

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>Please read this,We need more organisations like RSS to counter these

>kind of things.

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>Tsunami Update from Bishop Ezra Sargunam

>Tsunami Update:

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>Loving greetings in Jesus wonderful name. The Lord continues to be so

>good to us here in the mission field. Every day there are new

>challenges and opportunities. In one of the fishing villages near

>Nagapattinam, we had this opening in a village of 1700 families

>completely wiped out. Since this village was completely untouched by

>the relief agencies, we moved in there. We began our operation but

>soon one of the Hindu militant groups also landed there and said they

>wanted to adopt that village. So our team approached the District

>Collector (County Chief), who told the ECI Relief Team as well as the

>other Hindu group that we could divide and use half of the village,

>while the other Hindu group can take the other half. The ECI team got

>in touch with me in Chennai. Knowing fully well that this will not

>work, I told our men to withdraw from the negotiation table, since I

>knew that this would defeat our purpose. Besides in this area, the

>Government authorities do not allow us to provide tarpaulin tents.

>Only those relief agencies that are in a position to provide semi-

>permanent houses, which costs around $250, are allowed to carry out

>their operation. Since we were not quite ready with the necessary

>funds, we could not comply with these conditions. But there are

>number of other places where we can continue to rehabilitate the

>Tsunami-hit victims and get back here later.

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>OUR RELIEF OPERATION IS WHOLISTIC

>If we are not able to take care of the temporal and spiritual needs

>for the people, we do not want to be a party to any such arrangement.

>To many Christian groups who are involved in relief operation this is

>not a problem. But we strictly have a specific approach. We also

>realize that not in every occasion we may be able to articulate and

>share the Word. Our teams are told to use caution as we counsel the

>Tsunami victims. Sometimes our actions speak for themselves. On the

>whole, in our effort to relieve the physical sufferings, we do earn

>our right to share with them about the love of Christ.

>

>We told in the previous letter about a 60-year-old lady named Lakshmi

>who miraculously survived after an electric post fell on her back and

>crushed her on Dec 26th 2004. Our evangelists prayed for her and made

>arrangements to admit her in the hospital. Thank God that she has not

>damaged her spinal cord though she had injured her back very badly.

>At the hospital our believers are visiting her and are praying with

>her. Lakshmi has been treated well and receives healing. She has been

>able to sit up, put her legs down and slowly walk. She prayed to

>receive Christ. Praise God. Please pray for her and daughters for

>their salvation.

>

>I had gone to Andaman Islands with Dr. J.L. Williams of NDI and

>party. In the Andaman Islands, the Car Nicobar Island was the worst

>hit since it was so close to the epicentre in Indonesia. Due to

>earthquake and Tsunami waves, the entire Island is destroyed. With

>the total population of 50,000, it is believed that only 30-40

>thousand is survivors. The survivor victims are picked by the

>helicopter and through boats brought to the Andaman Islands. They

>have been put in rehabilitation camps. We visited one of them where

>near by 12,00 are taken care of. 90% of the Nicobar population is

>Christian. They are one of the aboriginal tribes of the island.

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>A SECTION OF THE NICOBARI REFUGEES WHO ARE LISTENING TO GOD'S WORD

>In Andaman and Nicobar Islands, there are 10 ECI Churches and 3

>preaching points. Our believers who are mostly employed in the

>Nicobar Islands have suffered a great deal. They have lost their

>homes, educational credentials, and money and just about everything.

>They have gone through untold suffering. They were wandering in the

>Island for more than 3 days, sometimes chased by wild animals and

>crocodiles until the helicopters picked them. At a special prayer

>meeting held in the Andaman Island at the ECI Faith Cathedral,

>several hundreds attended. Some of the Christian victims shared about

>their miraculous escape.

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>Thank god none of the ECI believers died. Totally about 12,000

>Andaman Nicobari tribal Christians died. A newly married couple were

>clinging to each other thinking that their death was imminent and

>when they die they want to die together until they were picked by the

>helicopter and brought to safety to Andaman Islands. The woman had a

>miscarriage after coming to Port Blair. They never wanted to return

>back. About 20 ECI families from Port Blair have returned back to the

>main land on a voyage by the sea or by air. Nagarajan, his wife and

>children are one such family. Through funds made available especially

>through OMS, we were able to feed number of families. The earth shook

>almost every other hour though we did not face any kind of experience

>till we were there. About 5 of the ECI families' house were either

>destroyed or partially damaged. We plan to build some of the houses.

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>NEXT PHASE OF RELIEF OPERATION

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>Tomorrow we will report about our next phase of operation in

>providing fishing boats for $3,000 or build permanent houses for

>$1500 or semi-permanent houses for $250. Also we have planned to

>provide metal trunks with lockers to store things for $50 and to

>provide two weeks of ration for $20 per family for hundreds of

>victims we serve. Hopefully by that time the fishermen will be back

>into the sea for fishing and things will be somewhat normal. We

>greatly appreciate you all for your continued prayers and supports in

>this crisis.

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>Cordially in Christ,

>M. Ezra Sargunam

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>Click here to read a Adobe PDF update on Tsunami Relief in India

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>ECI - Tsunami Relief Today

>January 5, 2005

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>SIMON PETER FISHING CORP LAUNCHED! 1300 FAMILIES RECEIVED RELIEF

>MATERIALS!!

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>Dear Partners,

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>The rough and the unruly tsunami sea is now quite, calm and serene.

>The dead are buried. The victims are still on the streets or

>rehabilitated in schools or public buildings or under the shadow of

>tarpaulin sheds ECI provided. It is estimated over 10,000 people have

>lost their lives in Tamilnadu state of India. At least 5,000 others

>or more either dead or lost in the Andaman island (Nicobar).

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>We continue to carry out the relief operation among the victims in

>eleven centers of the East Coast of the Bay of Bengal. About nine

>hundred families were fed continuously for five days.

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>We are at the second stage of our operation in providing relief

>materials and tents. We have so far covered about 2,700 families of

>victims including 1,300 families who received help just today alone.

>We want to reach 8,000 more families. The distribution was carried

>out at the ground floor of the ECI Church of the New Direction,

>Ernavoor. Victims from four different affected areas were brought to

>the church premises. Dr. J.L. Williams of the New Directions, mission

>Pastor of the Providence Church George Tissiere, both our strong

>partners, launched this project. There was literally a riot as people

>were trying to grab their plastic bucket full of clothings, rice,

>utensils, etc. Before the project was launched all the people

>assembled in the church, were prayed for and were comforted.

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>ECI's most interesting relief action of the day was the launching of

>the Simon Peter Fishing Corporation. The first two boats of the ECI

>project had gone to one middle aged man Palanisamy and another young

>man Paul Raj. Both belong to the same Ernavoor ECI Church of the New

>Direction. Thank God the houses of the both the families were spared

>because of the rock fortress built by the government just couple

>years ago to prevent erosion by the heavy sea waves. However both of

>them have lost their boats along with several hundreds in this region

>especially Palanisamy's boat was very expensive. There was no trace

>of the boat anywhere.

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>The condition of both families is pathetic. Palani, whom you see in

>the picture between George and Dr. J.L. has five daughters and only

>last born son. There is a saying in Tamil language that even a king

>with five daughters would become pauper! Palani was not a king. He

>had a boat and would be out in the sea for days together and his

>fishing errand. The entire family became Christian a few years ago

>from Hindu faith. Palani is only a "half Christian". Though he

>attends the Church but never been baptized. He expressed his desire

>to be baptized soon. He was really struggling to build his family.

>Palani borrowed a lot of money from the bank and bought an expensive

>boat which got lost in the ocean on December 26th never to be found.

>He is yet to pay back the huge sums of loan to the bank. Has been

>struggling tremendously with the large number of female members in

>the family. The boat provided today is going to be of immense help.

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>Paulraj comes from 150 miles Southeast of Chennai near Kadalur.

>Though there was no loss of life back in his own village he has lost

>his home, boat and everything. He came only recently to live with his

>father-in-law's family. His father-in-law and his son died few years

>ago. His mother-in-law is a very prayerful lady and has a cell group

>in their home of the ECI Ernavoor church. This new boat provided is a

>boat of life for this fisher family. Now no one can ridicule either

>Palanaisami or Paul Raj's family.

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>I hope to share more human-interest stories and statement of account

>from our finance department by my next letter. Again we are grateful

>for your valuable support. God has turned around this disaster to a

>time of witness in drawing people to Him. The key is your partnership

>and the joint-venture here. Feel free to use the story for promotion

>and to God's glory. Later on we may assign certain fishing villages

>to our various partners like OMS, NDI, SP, etc. as we follow-up and

>plant churches.

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>Again we do appreciate your partnership, concern, prayers and support.

>Cordially in Christ,

>M. EZRA SARGUNAM

>Bishop

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