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Emergency relief fund for the Philippines. How will it work.
by joe134cd 95 Replies latest jw experiences
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Eldenno
The INQUIRER - Biggest newspaper in the Philipines
‘Yolanda’ homes up in 5 days in Leyte
TANAUAN, Leyte—“Can they actually build your house in five days? Impossible! How are you going to pay them?”
The neighbors of Rosana Aguipo, 58, were incredulous when she told them that engineers, architects, carpenters, electricians and skilled craftsmen from the Jehovah’s Witnesses—the Christian denomination known for its door-to-door ministry—had pledged to waive professional fees and sacrifice time, energy and resources to build her a new house.
Since Dec. 26 last year, several teams of local and foreign Witness volunteers have been quietly building and repairing the homes of their members and their houses of worship, called Kingdom Halls, under their quick-build program, Local Design Construction (LDC), in Leyte and Samar.
As of April 25, more than 200 houses in Leyte and Samar had been erected, five months after Super Typhoon Yolanda (international name: Haiyan) devastated huge areas of eastern Visayas.
Each team of eight volunteers is able to finish building one house in five days. Construction, however, could stretch to 10 days, depending on the weather and the availability of materials.
Under the LDC program, which was set up by the Governing Body of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, hundreds of modest yet suitable houses have been erected for church members and their families that were hit hard by Yolanda, said Dean Jacek, spokesperson for the Jehovah’s Witnesses in the Philippines.
Read more: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/597786/yolanda-homes-up-in-5-days-in-leyte#ixzz30Ga09G8y
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Frazzled UBM
Eldenno aka emeth - why are you saturation bombing us with thsi story of dubious veracity? Posting it on one thread was sufficeint surely - why do it on three?
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Frazzled UBM
I stand corrected - you have posted it on 5 threads - is that using the Goebbels principle of a lie repeated often enough becomes the truth? Keep your WBTS propaganda to yourself.
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Listener
Eldenno, you are breaking the rules of the forum, see point 5. Is this how you witness for the Jehovah's Witnesses?
The Governing Body will be very pleased that they have made it into a major newspaper. The Governing Body aka the Faithful & Discreet Slave aren't being too discreet in providing a house to a JW where there neighbours are still living in ruins, sharing the resources around rather than making a specticle of some JW families may have been more considerate. Oh well, I notice one of the families have let the volunteer brothers stay in their new property as they had nowhere to stay, maybe they'll help out another family or two.
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ohnightdivine
The website is a legitimate news site.
The writer is a hardcore JW. Now, go figure....