by Erich Bridges, posted Monday, December 05, 2005 (18 years ago)
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Back to the sea
Mark Caldwell talks to Mogen villagers in an island village off Thailand’s southern coast. Already poor, the villagers lost their fishing boats when the tsunami roared ashore. With Southern Baptist tsunami relief funds, Caldwell and a local Thai pastor helped replace their boats.
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KHAO LAK, Thailand (BP)--Sunset paints a glorious reddish glow across the placid water lapping the beach at Khao Lak, Thailand.
The view calms the mind, quiets the heart -- and packs in the tourists at posh resorts.
Used to pack them in, that is, before the tsunami roared ashore last December.
“It’s hard to believe an ocean that beautiful could cause so much destruction,” says missionary Mark Caldwell, gazing wistfully toward the horizon.
| "The tsunami was a tragedy, but for us it brought new hope. If it had never come, we wouldn’t know about Jesus." |
| Thai village leader |
But destroy it did. Caldwell turns around and looks inland. He stands within walking distance of the places where at least 1,000 bodies were recovered after the Indian Ocean tsunami thundered north into the Andaman Sea -— and laid waste to this stretch of Thailand’s southern coastline. Read More
