Earlier this month, Super Typhoon Goni relentlessly battered several provinces south of Manila in the Philippines. Goni touched down on Catanduanes Island as the strongest landfalling tropical cyclone on record.

Goni pounded the small island with 10-minute sustained winds of up to 140 mph and gusts of up to 196mph. The savage winds and torrential downpour toppled powerlines, triggered flooding and produced landslides that consumed entire buildings.

World Team has several missionaries in various regions of the Philippines, including four in the most heavily impacted area. These four, in particular, are also victims of this natural disaster, having sustained damage to their own homes and losing many items to floodwaters and winds.

Relief efforts are desperately needed, not only by the local believers & church communities but also by our workers, who will need stability in order to better serve their communities.

Our Desire

As we provide physical relief, we anticipate that people in the affected region will experience the love of Christ in a tangible way as their needs are met by Christians who serve them during this time of extreme vulnerability. We also anticipate that our workers will better be able to serve their communities if their basic needs are met so that they are not serving out of depletion.

Our Goals

* To help the missionary workers associated with World Team Philippines so that their needs are met, and they are in a position to help others.

*To provide help to the Christian communities in which our workers serve and to the church communities associated with World Team Philippines.

*To assist the Christian communities in providing disaster relief to the communities in which they live.

Please consider joining us by financially supporting this much needed relief fund. Pray for our missionaries as they seek to get back on their feet and minister to others, sharing the hope of Christ during this difficult time.

If you would like to donate from the European Union, please go to the priorities page on our website at https://us.worldteam.org/give/priorities/.

Updates!

*In Caramoan, our workers have been able to use first-wave funds to provide rice for about 800 households. They have also assisted the community by providing a day of employment for over 60 people to help remove rubble left in their town in the wake of destroyed buildings. In this way, not only did necessary clean-up take place, but people were also able to work to earn money that their families need right now.

*On Catanduanes Island, the four church communities planted by World Team workers banded together to find one of the hardest-hit, most remote areas of the island - a place where relief had not yet arrived. They used the first-wave funds to provide rice, corrugated metal roofing, plywood (for building walls) and nails. They also dug & installed 2 new wells so that people have access to fresh water.