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#1 09-13-09 10:10 am

don
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Registered: 12-28-08
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Typhoon in Taiwan

<b><font color="ff0000">Typhoon in Taiwan</font></b> <BR> <BR>Ryan, this is in your part of the world, isn&#39;t it? Do you have anything you can share with us on this?<blockquote><hr size=0><!-quote-!><font size=1><b>quote:</b></font><p>More than 100 Dead as Typhoon  <BR>Ravages Taiwanese Coast <BR>Several Adventists feared among victims <BR> <BR>BY MEGAN BRAUNER, Adventist News Network <BR>  <BR>  <BR> DEVASTATION IN TAIWAN -- Four Adventist Church members are feared dead and two pastors are believed missing after Typhoon Morakot hit the coast of Taiwan in mid-August. [Photo: Taiwan Conference]  <BR>  <BR>everal Seventh-day Adventists are likely included in the death toll from Typhoon Morakot, a storm that hit northeastern Taiwan during August, Adventist church leaders in Taiwan said. <BR>  <BR>Four church members are believed to be dead and two pastors have been missing for more than five days, initial church reports stated. <BR>  <BR>The typhoon reportedly killed hundreds of Taiwanese and destroyed more than 10,000 homes after making landfall, with torrential rains and flooding causing more destruction early the following week. <BR>  <BR>The majority of Adventists affected by the typhoon are farmers, who will suffer from the loss of their crops, said Raymond Ko, president for the Adventist Church in Taiwan. <BR>  <BR>“We estimate that those affected by the typhoon would need up to one year for their lives to resume to normal,” Ko said. <BR> <BR><a href="http://www.adventistreview.org/article.php?id=2815" target=_top>http://www.adventistreview.org/article.php?id=2815</a><!-/quote-!><hr size=0></blockquote>

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