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I have been getting regular updates from friends in the area of the massive flooding about the conditions on the ground and the help that is needed.  One such friend is Eric Schumacher, pastor of Northbrook Baptist Church in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.  Baptist Press recently interviewed Eric and took

We’re visiting with my parents for a few days while en route to the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship meeting in Memphis June 18-20. That means, among other things, that we’re gorging ourselves on fresh vegetables from the garden – my father figures that being 80 years old is no excuse for avoiding hard work, especially if there is fresh corn at the end of it.

Southern Baptists are moving to respond in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis, which struck Myanmar, a country in Southeast Asia also known as Burma, early May 3 with winds of up to 120 mph. The storm knocked out electricity in Yangon, the country’s largest city, and left hundreds of thousands of people homeless, according to the Associated Press.