Comfort Ministries

Health and Disaster Relief

Medical camps: Luke 4;16

Machili patnam means city of the fishers. Most of the people at these coastal communities are illiterate and having all the traditional practieces.By chanting mantras they will be healed they think and practice in it. They don’t have proper diagnosis; some villages do not have the doctors and hospitals. They don’t have the ability to pay the doctor. So we prayed to the lord for this needy people, and we are conducting the Medical camps, free eye glasses. Many of them are getting treatment and eye glasses at free of cost.

Comfort Relief:

Our ministry among the coastal belt where always people endanger with earthly calamities, disaster. And causing the people loose all the crops of the agriculture and aqua culture, then it leads for starving.1977 had the great cyclone, tidal waves in a moment of time swallowed thousands of lives and caused many widows,orphans,poor People were recent tsunami swallowed many people who went for catching the fishes by holding their stomach. With less wages all need to work for their daily bread, it’s only sufficient for that day, if they work they will have the food. Comfort ministries with great hope, less resources encouraging them with words of god, deeds .We are doing our best in helping them, and finding hope in their lives in Christ.

Brief Report on the Recent Flood relief Work:

“This cyclone has killed at least 50 people in the state of Andhra Pradesh. Heavy rains and winds up to 100 km per hour destroyed homes and buildings, damaged plantations and caused floods in coastal districts”, officials said. Heavy rains and gales lashed coastal Andhra Pradesh from the 28 October – 06 November 2006. Some 8,000 families have lost their homes and crops on 600,000 acres of farm land have been destroyed. The severe storm also uprooted thousands of trees and electricity and telephone poles. Temperatures dipped in the predominantly tropical state and one official told that the dead included people who had succumbed to "cold weather. Nearly 20,000 villagers had been evacuated. This was the first winter cyclone in the state in 18 years.

News reports indicate that, according to the Govt. Official records, the loss amounts to worth rupees 2165 cores (about $ 503488.00). 270 shelters have been provided but still 100000 people are stuck without adequate shelter in the villages. The present flooding has resulted in further impoverishment of the already underprivileged and most marginalized Dalit and Tribal communities who live in low-lying and vulnerable zones of the coastal areas.

From the Krishna district it is reported that government relief measures had difficulties reaching people. Many families have been rendered homeless but have not received any shelter assistance due to lack of support from various agencies both government and non-government. In most of the inundated areas the families/communities have lost all their personal belongings and still have received no relief. The small amount of relief extended by the government was not sufficient for one week.

Comfort ministries with the help of Jim and Texas church we could help food needs (items such as rice, dhal and oil) for the affected families, to provide basic clothes and blankets to affected families, in three villages which is Palle Palem, bala nagar,Krishana nagar., also provide medical treatment and medicines for the victims.

This help had the great impact on peoples’ lives with the love of Jesus Christ, and helped us to wipe their tears away and find the smiles on their faces.

Join your hands for this relief work and bring the hope for broken hearts and show the love of Christ with our deeds..