Singing Songs, Fixing Hearts: What I Learned About Disaster Recovery
When Ashley Peterson heard about the typhoon barreling toward the Philippines, she knew her upcoming trip wasn’t going to go as planned. Instead of meeting with ministry contacts, she shifted her focus to disaster recovery work. Like many who traveled to the Philippines just after Typhoon Haiyan, Ashley wanted to assist with relief work in hard-hit Tacloban. But she wasn’t able to get there.
“I was really upset,” remembers Ashley. “We couldn’t do what I thought we’d come to do.” But then Ashley met a missionary who suggested a different...