Orthodox Priest Lends Hand To Flood Victims

"The Rev. Vasile Bitere (gone), of Holy Trinity Greek Colors Church, surveys the dent gone by a week of harsh rains and flooding in Iowa. BY KELLY JASPER Impede PoetSaturday, July 12, "In the wake of a disaster, caring agencies recurrently are near the beginning on the situation to hand show mercy to supplies."Like they provender, exhibit are however a whole lot of requests to be met," the Rev. Vasile Bitere intended. "Population storage space spiritual requests even as soon as their physical requests storage space been met."The priest of Holy Trinity Greek Colors Church was simply deployed with a listings of "near the beginning responders" prime by the Inclusive Colors Christian Charities, a caring aid sureness. He and two California priests traveled to Iowa in overdue June to hand trauma advice-giving and joist church services together with the flood-ravaged communities knock down the Mississippi Canal.The Rev. Bitere returned June 28 and known his product with the family gathering, which is measures fundraisers for surplus fatalities."We as a community storage space to reply," he intended.Different homeland that the Rev. Bitere encountered in Des Moines, Iowa, were overwhelmed by the dent. They were, in a detail, repeating history, he intended."The city had massive flooding in 1993. It was a well-defined thing to go for the period of over," the Rev. Bitere intended.The listings traveled on to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, which elongated far away auxiliary dent in the floods."So oodles homes were condemned," he intended. "Population would dig for the period of the remains birthright exhausting to find some item to restore to life."While the listings met with family Colors leaders and offered stress-management briefings for family clergy, the IOCC both provided help pleasing out National Disaster Management Commission forms and offered currency grants to family communities.Holy Trinity hopes to help support let go efforts with actions this summer and assistance subjugated at the annual report Greek Open market in October.Touch Kelly Jasper at (706) 823-3552 orkelly.jasper@augustachronicle.com.Fasten THE Technique Pains The Inclusive Colors Christian Charities is relief caring aid to sopping regions of the midwest. For auxiliary information, have (877) 803-4622 or go on-line to http://www.iocc.org/.From the Saturday, July 12, 2008 distribute of the Augusta Diary SOURCE: