{"id":23880,"date":"2007-11-18T21:15:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T03:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/blog\/uncategorized\/samaritans-purse-reaches-out-mexico-part-2\/"},"modified":"2016-05-12T17:21:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T21:21:00","slug":"samaritans-purse-reaches-out-mexico-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/2007\/samaritans-purse-reaches-out-mexico-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Samaritan’s Purse Reaches Out (Mexico Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>The last few<\/span><\/span> days have been<\/span><\/span> full fo<\/span><\/span>r Go To<\/a><\/span><\/span> Team\u2019s<\/a><\/span><\/span> <\/a>Clark Crew.<\/span><\/span> Skip and<\/span><\/span> John<\/span><\/span> have<\/span><\/span> continued to follow Samaritan\u2019s Purse <\/a>the<\/span><\/span> last several days through all parts of<\/span><\/span> Villahermosa and the state of Tabasco<\/span><\/span> in the so<\/span><\/span>uthern portion of Mexico.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span>
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\n\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>After spending Friday getting their<\/span><\/span> bearings and witnessing <\/span><\/span>some of the<\/span><\/span> devastation<\/span><\/span> caused<\/span><\/span> by the floods<\/span><\/span> in late October and early<\/span><\/span> November,<\/span><\/span> Skip, John, and producer Bill Meissner jumped on the<\/span><\/span> road with the<\/span><\/span> crew from<\/span><\/span> Samaritan\u2019s Purse <\/a>as they made their<\/span><\/span> stops to the<\/span><\/span> hardest hi<\/span><\/span>t<\/span><\/span> areas. <\/span><\/span>
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\n\"\"<\/a>They traveled far from Villahermosa on Saturday to visit<\/span><\/span> a small village west of the city. Samaritan\u2019s Purse had set up a water<\/span><\/span> filtration<\/span><\/span> syste<\/span><\/span>m at a small ru<\/span><\/span>ral church in the days following the flooding to<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span>provide<\/span><\/span> clean water <\/span><\/span>to all the residents<\/span><\/span> in<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span>the area and it <\/span><\/span>needed<\/span><\/span> to <\/span><\/span>be<\/span><\/span> checked on to<\/span><\/span> be<\/span><\/span> sure<\/span><\/span> <\/span>it<\/span><\/span> was<\/span><\/span> still<\/span><\/span> running well. <\/span><\/span>Up to<\/span><\/span> <\/span>3,000 people<\/span><\/span><\/span> a<\/span><\/span><\/span> day<\/span> can get clean water<\/span><\/span> from the system, cleaner tha<\/span><\/span>n most of<\/span><\/span> us have<\/span><\/span> at home in the<\/span><\/span> St<\/span><\/span>ates!<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Then, on Sunday,<\/span><\/span> they traveled<\/span><\/span> into a<\/span><\/span> neighborhood devastated<\/span><\/span> by the<\/span><\/span> flood<\/span><\/span> and then the standing water. Garbage, debris, and just<\/span><\/span> about<\/span><\/span> anything else you can think<\/span><\/span> of, lines the streets. And in<\/span><\/span> some places, the<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span>piles block<\/span><\/span> the<\/span><\/span> streets.<\/span><\/span> All of this<\/span><\/span> debris<\/span><\/span> and garbage<\/span><\/span> has<\/span><\/span> been covered <\/span><\/span>with<\/span><\/span> a thin scattering<\/span><\/span> of ground lime to <\/span><\/span>help mask the smell. Samaritan\u2019s<\/span><\/span> Purse<\/span><\/span> arranged for a<\/span><\/span> front loader and six dump<\/span><\/span> trucks to<\/span><\/span> clean up a<\/span><\/span> few of the<\/span><\/span> streets. <\/span><\/span>All of their efforts have been coordinated <\/span><\/span>with<\/span><\/span> the authorities and the<\/span><\/span> local churches; the<\/span><\/span> pastors at each church are<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span>encouraged to get <\/span><\/span>t<\/span><\/span>heir congregation<\/span><\/span>s<\/span><\/span> to<\/span><\/span> volunteer and<\/span><\/span> work <\/span><\/span>with <\/span><\/span>Samaritan\u2019s<\/span><\/span> Purse as <\/span><\/span>they work<\/span><\/span> each day in the cleanup<\/span><\/span> efforts. Now,<\/span><\/span> it\u2019s not all work and no<\/span><\/span> play<\/span><\/span> for the<\/span><\/span> folks at<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span>Samaritan\u2019s<\/span><\/span> Purse<\/span><\/span>. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>They<\/span><\/span> do occasionally take a<\/span><\/span> break to<\/span><\/span> share<\/span><\/span> some ice<\/span><\/span> cream<\/span><\/span> with the kids . <\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span> .<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The last few days have been full for Go To Team\u2019s Clark Crew. Skip and John have continued to follow Samaritan\u2019s Purse the last several days through all parts of Villahermosa and the state of Tabasco in the southern portion of Mexico. After spending Friday getting their bearings and witnessing some of the devastation caused […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":27848,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[287],"tags":[330,326,331,327,328,329,37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23880"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}