Desperately seeking God’s Saving Action (Yolanda Survivors’ Hope beyond Heartbreaking Lamentations)

Karl M. Gaspar, C.Ss.R, Ph.D.

ISBN: 978-971-9642-01-5
Book Paper; Softbound
339 pages; 6×9 pages
c2014

AWARDS: 2015 Cardinal Sin Catholic Book Award (Spirituality and Ministry)

This book is very useful in helping others to respond quickly, effectively, compassionately and prophetically to future disasters. More than this, it offers a perspective on pastoral ministry and missiological activity which might help us to proclaim the Gospel anew today in many different circumstances and situations. This is the story of the disaster of Typhoon Yolanda and the response of a dynamic group of missionaries: priests, sisters, brothers and lay men and women. It is their story, but it is our story too – the story of loss and redemption, of despair and hope, of death and life. May this story of the survivors and the missionaries offer a model of mission together which can bring hope and healing to a broken world.