On Monday, January 16th, 2012, Nazarene Disaster Response, in partnership with This Side of the Road Outreach, held a free clinic for the people of Barangay Carmen in the city of Cagayan De Oro on the island of Mindanao. We utilized a covered basketball court as the site for our clinic.

During the clinic, Pastor Elmer Open pulled me aside and introduced me to Nellie Galos, a survivor of the recent flood. I sat down with Nellie and she began to tell me an amazing story of God's protection along a 10-hour, 23 mile journey that she will never forget.

Nellie, her husband, and six children, lived in a one story home in Barangay Carmen. Carmen is the

It has been a couple of days since I sent an update. Obviously we've been quite busy. I have so much to tell you, but so little time to type it and update the website...

We are having a great time here in CDO! The community that we are serving keeps growing every day. The rotary club just delivered 150 more tents, and truckloads of new families are being brought to this site daily.

The operation as a whole is

We made it to Cagayan De Oro (CDO) in one piece! Nanding and Bobot arrived in CDO late last night (Sat). Today, after church, we spent most of the day putting up the tents for our clinic tomorrow.

It's pretty amazing to see the tent city firsthand. It's well organized and clean... not what I was expecting!

Had a reality check this morning. After church,