Just wanted to let you know I have posted some interesting facts on"Fight For Their Lives" If you would check it out I would appreciate it!

God Bless,
Leah-Joy.

Picture Perfect (post 200)

Buddy is growing into such an amazing young man. He now has cows pigs, and this summer he had an amazing garden. He has become even more of an amazing older brother to J Man and Sunshine and I am now looking up to him. He works so hard and becoming everyday more like our Lord. It is wonderful to see him fill the chivalric code of being trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave,pure and reverent more and more.

Dear Father,
Thank you so much for my brother. Thank you for allowing to look up to him even though he is younger then me.

A Dissater That Needs Your Prayers!

This is a letter from a dear cousin who lives in the Pillipines but is currently in the US. Please keep these people in your prayers. Not only have they had to suffer this horrid flood, but another is expected tonight our time and Friday morning their time.

It has been a tough week in the lives of so many in Manila Philippines. I am currently in the US for work so I am not on the ground first hand to experience the disaster and pain the population is currently living through. On Saturday a Typhoon dumped 30 days worth of rain in just 6 hours. As I write this on Tues evening flood waters still submerge many homes and the death toll is nearing 300. My family is safe but the reality of this disaster is that many who lived in this third world country had little before the storm hit and now they have nothing.I have tried to put the words to the paper to describe what it is like in Manila right now and I just can't find them. It was heartbreaking to see children in the streets with nothing before. Now you see the pictures of them with even less, and no means of improving the situation as the mud and water are still standing. More storms are projected in and they really can't care for the large groups of displaced people as it is now.The stories of what the Filipino will do to survive are phenomenal. Their dedication and loyalty to their family and those in their lives just can't be described. Most Filipinos live on less than $10 a day and the work they do for that $10 is strenuous but always done beyond expectation. On Monday morning with flood waters still rolling my housekeeper, with a house underwater up to the ceiling of the first floor showed up for work. Johnnie took them back to their home, picked up the children and they will stay with us until it can be determined if the house can be salvaged. Her father remains in the second floor, 4 days later with water still standing. Today they will go back, try to convince him to leave with them, and tie what remaining things they have to the ceiling of the second floor in hopes the new rains wont raise the water that high. The father has held firmly that he will not leave, he intends to protect what his daughter owns, as she has worked hard for it.Please pray for the country. The death toll is rising, and the disease has already begun. The mosquitoes will be hatching soon and Dengue fever will increase. Medicines are scare, and dehydration is already being reported in the young and the elderly. Many are forced to drink the flood waters which will result in typhoid most likely.If you would like to make a donation of used clothing, sheets, towels, sponges, soap etc or non perishable food or even small children's toys or books, you may mail it to my US address. A Flat rate Post office box to an APO/FPO address is about $12 to mail. Johnnie will distribute until I arrive back in the Philippines. I am attaching pictures which were taken from a slide show on yahoo. If you type in Philippine floods 2009 you will find more than 300 photos of the damage. I urge caution when viewing. The pictures are traumatic. They are not filtered and they do show death and removal of casualties. The picture I attach called floodchild is a boy in line waiting for emergency food rations to be handed out. In today's paper the article spoke of a 69 year old man who waited and waited in the food line but when they got to him all they had was water. He said he missed the bag of rations for the day. The bag contains a can with 2 sardines, and a pouch of noodles and is the ration amount for the day for a family.The two fish are there…please pray for the five loaves and the miracle to go with them.

With Love,

Kathy and Johnnie Jackson

PSC 500 Box 19 FPO AP 96515