Love in a Time of Tornadoes

By Hannah Marazzi with Joseph Park

October 25, 2018

Canadians familiar with the Christian relief agency Samaritan's Purse usually think of it working in international disaster response from Haiti to Bangladesh. But as Senior Operations Manager Joseph Park tells Convivium’s Hannah Marazzi, it also brings aid and comfort to locales across Canada, including the nation’s capital during a recent terrifying time of mighty winds.

C: How does Samaritan's Purse determine where they send people? Do communities call you? Do you have some sort of an internal monitoring service that alerts you where and when to offer your services?   JP: Samaritan's Purse worked very closely with the city of Ottawa to assist all the private properties that had requested some assistance in the wake of the tornados C: Do you have something that you would hope that these communities would carry with them after this time spent together with your team - something that they would remember about - what you guys hoped and prayed for that they would be left with after this experience?

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