Copyright (c) 2024 Baptist Press. Reprinted from Baptist Press (www.baptistpress.com), news service of the Southern Baptist Convention.
The original story can be found at http://m.bpnews.net/22360/photo-essay-remembering-the-tsunami
PHOTO ESSAY: Remembering the tsunami
A grandfather holds his 1-year-old granddaughter as the sun sets on Dec. 26, 2005, the anniversary of the Southeast Asian tsunami. The child lost both her mother and father in the tsunami. by Chris Sinclair
by Chris Sinclair
More than 5,000 Kong Fai lanterns —- small, paper hot air balloons -- were released into the night sky in tribute to the more than 5,000 lives lost along Thailand’s Khao Lak coast during the 2004 tsunami. by Chris Sinclair
by Chris Sinclair
A tree on the coast of Khao Lak, Thailand serves as a memorial to those who died in the tsunami one year ago. by Chris Sinclair.
by Chris Sinclair.
Bang Nam Kem, the hardest hit village in southern Thailand, lost more than 1,000 people -- roughly a third of its population -- in the 2004 tsunami. Art from the village reflects the tragedy caused by the tsunami. by Chris Sinclair
by Chris Sinclair
KHAO LAK, Thailand (BP)--On Dec. 26, 2004, a massive earthquake in the Indian Ocean spawned one of the most destructive tsunamis in recorded history. It swept away more than 225,000 lives and left millions of people homeless. One year later, Southern Baptists continue to aid and share God’s love with survivors in South Asia.
On the one-year anniversary of the devastating tsunami, Southern Baptist workers gathered with other people along Thailand’s southern coast to remember those who tragically were lost.
An estimated 6,000 people gathered from across the globe at Khao Lak, one of the beaches that was devastated. Men, women and children from different lands and religions, touched by the tragedy —- many of whom had given their time and money in relief efforts that followed —- returned to this beach where so many died. Each was bound together by this tragedy and the response that followed.
The photographs here tell the story of the one-year anniversary gathering.