Street Stories - A Ringside Seat To Over 4 Decades Of Taking Jesus To The Streets Of The World

church that had agreed to let us sleep on the floor in their church as we continued ministry. I could have never imagined what was waiting for us the next day in Tacloban. Back in the USA a few weeks prior as I read stories about Typhoon Haiyan and how it had devastated areas in the southern Philippines, I was aware the main hit was suffered in Tacloban. Now, after traveling thousands of miles around the world, we were in the main city area of Tacloban. I had never seen such devastation on such a massive scale. Dot and I had ministered in Moore, Oklahoma with Bishop Tony and Kathy Miller and the Gate Church from Oklahoma City. Moore had been devastated by tornadoes that had ripped through the city. I called Dot and talked to her from Tacloban. She asked me what it was like there after the typhoon. I told her, “It’s like 1,000 Oklahomas.” I could not find words to describe what we were experiencing in Tacloban. We ministered to people on the streets of Tacloban, stepping over body bags strewn along the blocks and blocks of the city. Many people’s loved ones had been killed in the typhoon but were still in body bags on the streets. So many perished that it took months to recover all the bodies. There were hundreds of people who merely vanished in the storm, never to be found again. It was like they were there one day and simply disappeared during Typhoon Haiyan.

On one street we met a team of firefighters and rescue workers from Tacloban Fire and Rescue team.

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