Turkey’s rescue and recovery work continues even as additional earthquakes rattle the region. This report opens a window on the front-line work ongoing there and how God is at work to connect people and resources.On February 23, Daryl leaves with a team to transport and install water purification systems in 15 different areas where clean water has become a challenge for those existing there. In addition, Daryl is mounting an effort to deliver and install five water purification systems in Syria.Advent Relief is moving in with a mobile clinic unit to support local areas where most hospitals are destroyed.And the Gideon Rescue team is on its way back with renewed strength and a fresh team to continue helping the local population with search and rescue.Please continue to pray and share this video as we look to the future and what can be done to help relieve suffering.Your continued support is vital to the work being done in Turkey and Syria.May God bless you and inspire you as you see what is being done on the front lines.Donate to the Turkey/Syria Earthquake Relief Fund here: https://outpostcenters.org/turkey-syriaNote: To support the Turkey/Syria effort, please donate through this link only and not to AudioVerse.

Turkey’s rescue and recovery work continues even as additional earthquakes rattle the region. This report opens a window on the front-line work ongoing there and how God is at work to connect people and resources.On February 23, Daryl leaves with a team to transport and install water purification systems in 15 different areas where clean water has become a challenge for those existing there. In addition, Daryl is mounting an effort to deliver and install five water purification systems in Syria.Advent Relief is moving in with a mobile clinic unit to support local areas where most hospitals are destroyed.And the Gideon Rescue team is on its way back with renewed strength and a fresh team to continue helping the local population with search and rescue.Please continue to pray and share this video as we look to the future and what can be done to help relieve suffering.Your continued support is vital to the work being done in Turkey and Syria.May God bless you and inspire you as you see what is being done on the front lines.Donate to the Turkey/Syria Earthquake Relief Fund here: <a href="https://outpostcenters.org/turkey-syria" target="_blank">https://outpostcenters.org/turkey-syria</a>Note: To support the Turkey/Syria effort, please donate through this link only and not to AudioVerse.

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Turkey and Syria Earthquake Live Reports

Steve Dickman

Turkey and Syria Earthquake Live Report 1

Turkey and Syria Earthquake Live Report 2


Hi, friends. I'm Steve Dickman from Outpost Centers International and we're bringing you an update for the work that's happening in Turkey and attempt to get some work in Syria as well. The results of the earthquake, the aftermath of the earthquake is still going on. A lot of lives have been impacted and your support for this project has been really helping these people. We have Hildy with us.

He's been on the ground in Turkey. Hildy, tell us what Advent Relief is doing there and what the opportunities are and what you see for the future. Thank you, Steve. So I was there and I visited a few of the cities that they were, most of them, they are completely destroyed. And the need of, There is a lot of need, not only healthcare, but the need is huge.

But the need for healthcare, that is our field, is huge. And we are in the process to get 2 container mobile clinics inside of the country. They are supposed to get there in the next couple of weeks. We will set up a 20-foot container. We will set up 2 of these units around the cities more affected.

At the moment, our biggest need is to have medical volunteers, doctors, nurses, paramedics. And also, we need to fill up the mobile clinics with medical consumables. And that is the biggest need we see now, because the demand is so big for consumables that it's difficult to have that locally in the cities around. We need to bring from other cities far from where the earthquake happened. And we are hoping that we'll be operating there between 6 months to 1 year.

That is our initial plan. And if God opens the way, we might continue there over 1 year. And yeah, that is our plan so far. And we hope that in a couple of weeks, we'll be able to be up and running and serving these families. Thank you Hildy so much for your work there and exploring the situation and finding those opportunities to establish those mobile medical clinics.

Friends, if you're a physician, a nurse, a doctor, and you have thought about going to Turkey to help out, this may be your opportunity. So we're going to give contact information on our website so you can explore that opportunity with Hilde and his team there with Advent Relief. And of course, the supplies needed to stock these units and to operate that, your generosity will make that happen. I have Darrell on the line with us from Living Waters International. Darrell, talk to us about what's happening there and where we're at in the process of getting some clean water happening, some purified water happening.

Yeah, thanks, Steve. And I wanna thank all those who worked so hard to help this project get off the ground. Living Waters has a team of 5 that are gonna be deploying on February 23, directly to Ka'aramah Mara. We have raised about 70% of our initial funding, so we're still about $20, 000 short, and that is our primary need to raise that between now and Wednesday, the 22nd of February. Some really cool things have happened that just even today, some doors are starting to look like they could be opening up to get some units into Syria.

We have 15 units going to Turkey, but if we were able to get some units into Syria, this would be absolutely huge. 5 more units would be an additional $25, 000. So when we get our initial funding done for the 15 to Turkey, we will be asking if we have an overflow that we can take for $25, 000, we'll get 5 units potentially into Syria, and we are ready to roll. The problem is we've got to make decisions in the next couple of days so if you are able to To help in some way to get this project funded. We would thank you so much and thank you for your time and your support Thank you, daryl.

It's exciting to see how the Lord has opened doors and this project is moving forward step by step. There's going to be some clean water in Turkey and we hope in Syria by God's blessing and the medical teams on the ground there in Turkey helping out. This is a long-term problem, not a short-term problem. I'm glad to hear that Advent Relief is committed to the long-term and what's happening there. We have Corey with us here this evening as well.

Corey has been on the ground in Turkey at the front lines doing search and rescue. Cory, tell us, how did that go? And how did the Lord open doors for you and get you on the front lines there? 1 miracle after another, brother. Our team responded as fast as we could, which on a realistic level means that you don't have all your ducks in a row.

It just means that you're going to go in faith, trusting that God's going to open up the doors with you. For us, that happened on the flight there. There was a man that had a medical emergency. Our team was able to render the assistance. And through that, some of the other passengers realized that we were a rescue team.

And kind of were like, hey, are you guys going to do disaster response for the earthquakes? They saw our search dogs there with the vests and stuff. And I said, yes, we are. And they said, Oh, praise the Lord. He said, I've been, we met this man, we'll call him Ty.

I said, I've been looking for someone to help me find my mother in law in the city of a Ty, H-A-T-A-Y. And it's a city of about 2 million people. He said, I'm flying back. He's a professional in the oil industry and he knows a little bit about thermal imaging and the kinds of technology you might use to find someone. And so he was looking for those kinds of resources and he says, here you are, you're on the plane with me.

Would you come? And he said, we need somewhere to go and we would love to work with the locals, but yes. And he said, praise God, I'm not, tell my wife all about it. And from the beginning, he was very warm and he knew we were Christians. Yeah, he comes from a Muslim background, but he was just thankful to have somebody to work with.

And the grace of God our search dogs were able to come. It didn't look like they could at first, but God opened the doors where our training partner and sponsor for that, Ground 0. Wanted to send the dogs, so we were able to send 3 instead of just 1. And we got to the airport there in Istanbul, and Turkish Airlines, I believe, flew us for free over to Adana. In the end, it was actually the US military that flew us in on a pair of Blackhawks.

We got dropped off right in the affected area, Hatay, again, city of about 2 million. A lot of the city lives in apartment complexes that are made of concrete. A lot of those are older, not necessarily built to withstand earthquakes, so a lot of them would fall and crumble. And oftentimes that would be the lower couple of floors if the whole building didn't fall. So there was a lot of people trapped in basements and their rooms and stuff in voids.

Corey, I know you spent about a week out there. What were the conditions like on the front lines? You have a hotel to stay in or how did you survive? The locals were just awesome. We stayed 1 night, the first night, at an Afad camp.

That's the Turkish government equivalent of United States FEMA. We stayed there and that was all right, but it was a constant coming and going. It's a lot of pace of a lot of activity and from the start our dogs were in high demand. You walk half a block and you'll get 3 requests of people coming saying, hey, my mother, my brother, my child, we believe is in this building. Could you help us find him?

It's pretty tough, honestly, because you don't know if they're alive or not. Our dogs are trained to find people whether they're alive or deceased, but it's a valuable service for the locals because they want to know if someone's in the building or not. In the Muslim faith tradition, it's very important for them to have the bodies of their loved ones so that's still very service to them. Of course, we want to find people alive on the rescue side of things. That's what we would be doing.

The second day we were there, which was Friday, Our dogs hit on a scent in this five-story building, which was now a three-story building. The lower 2 floors had collapsed. Had just pulled 3 living people out of this building. We knew people, Other people might be in there too. Other families were reported there.

Loved ones were still in this building. And the thermal imaging crew came by. The Turkish military had a thermal imaging team and some of the other country rescue teams did as well. So we scanned the building with those and it showed that there was 2 maybe 3 people alive. Once you have that situation you're in a race against the clock.

We're already, how many days? About 4 or 5 days into it at that point. Whoever might be there, The clock is ticking for them. And so we started working around the clock. God provided everything we needed.

We slept in the street with the locals and finally answering their question. We slept in the street with them. They took care of us. They fed us, gave us water. The soldiers, they assigned 2 soldiers to be our protective escorts, essentially, to make sure that we were well taken care of.

The locals said it was too dangerous for us on the streets at night. Once you find someone in the building, there's not time to go somewhere else and come back. So we just worked around the clock. We would take short little nap breaks and get back on it. God took care of us to the extent that I never opened my wallet once.

I will say this was probably the most dangerous, easily the most dangerous response I've ever done. After a while of working there, there was a 4.8 tremor. That'll get you moving. We all jumped out of the building. We're working 1 story up.

We all jumped out of the window. Everyone jumped into the rubble piles below. Nobody was hurt on that. From then on, we put mattresses down on the street level beneath the window so we could make a quick exit and increase our safety margins at least a little bit. By the end of 5 days, we had dug tunnels and made holes in those floors to the extent that I don't I'm not even sure where they could be.

We're pretty much exhausted. We checked coming up through the basement but the basement was not collapsed but a lot of the floors were coming down like falling into the basement And as you would come back and check, you'd see another floor that had fallen down into the basement. And it was a dynamic situation where you wouldn't wanna be in the basement when that happened. But God protected us. Corey, I know while we were talking earlier, you mentioned about 1 young man who had been rescued.

And tell us a little bit about that story of how he felt he survived and his experience. There was a young boy that was finally extricated and rescued from 1 of these collapsed buildings. And they asked him, how did you survive? And he said, there was a man that came by in white and he would feed me and give me water ever so often. God is revealing Himself to everyone of the world.

God is showing Himself. It needs to be understood that He's the 1 that makes this work. He's the 1 that loved us while we were yet sinners and rebellion against him. The Lord's at work all over the world and especially in these zones where people are really hurting right now. We serve a God who is compassionate and loving and kind and he uses people though.

Friends, he may use you to give a hand even in this situation in Turkey and Syria. Again, thank you, Corey, for sharing with us. God's blessing on you

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