El Salvador has been hit hard, especially along its rivers. National church leadership is currently assessing damage and assistance plans. Missionary Bonnie Carlyon communicated with the Assemblies of God Headquarters in Springfield, Mo., from Nicaragua over the weekend. Many communities have apparently been swallowed up by the overflowing rivers. A few towns, we have heard that the community has disappeared completely.
People are still, even tonight, waiting in trees and on rooftops to be rescued.
Our Latin America ChildCare doctor relayed a story to me that I cannot get out of my mind. She went up towards Leon, a city 150 km from Managua, to check on her family. She could only get so far because the roads are washed out, as well as all the bridges. She said that she came upon a scene where they were burying a family of six people. They had been holding on to a tree and could not hold on any longer.