Stories

I sit in the middle of the madness. On one side the head cook is giving orders to the team cooking. I can hear the sound of knives on cutting boards and the heat from the boiling pots drifts into the hallway. On the other side there is discussions about delivery of food and mattresses, “100 here and another 200 there” as well as phone call after phone call to our director as more and more people ask for help.

With over one million people displaced everywhere there is need everywhere, everyone is asking for help. Many people are sleeping on the ground since the mattresses are hard to find, many who fled to shelters up in the mountains are asking for blankets as the nights begin to get cold.

 

Message after message comes into our inbox on our Instagram and emails asking how they can help. Then responding in the morning when the GPS is being scrambled keeping people from finding the location where they need to go to volunteer.

 

With the intensity of the war increasing in the last couple weeks, there is a shift in Lebanon. The last two weeks have been rough but there is a feeling of change rising.  There is a hope rising, a hope for change, a hope for a future. As Triumphant Mercy serving we are also seeing Lebanese rising up to serve those in need and there is a belief arising among the Lebanese to see a “new Lebanon.” We are seeing the answer to prayers and we are seeing people watching with a renewed hope as we continue to pray and see Lebanon grow into who she was meant to be.