Relief Work: Delivering Supplies in Shiogama

Our final "project" during our relief trip up to the greater Sendai area was to load up a truck with supplies at an NGO warehouse, and then travel the next morning up to a devastated town called Minami Sanrikucho...

Unloading the truck full of supplies at Shiogama Bible Baptist Church

However, we were hit with a 7.1 earthquake off the coast of Sendai that night - roads were closed, power and water were temporarily out, no cell phone communication to confirm our route ... We ended up improvising and bringing our supplies instead to Shiogama Bible Baptist Church (a church which is serving as a hub for a lot of relief work in their coastal city).  Check out a ~3min video I made:


(Correction: Scripture reference in video should be Psalm 62:1-2)

You can see that in general, there are not shortages of donated supplies, but rather shortages of available people and vehicles (and gas!) to distribute the supplies to those in need.