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- Life after Typhoon Haiyan A little bit down the road Bishop Stephen Talmage’s group stopped to view the home of Delia. She and her grandchildren, during and after the storm, used their dining table for cover and as a temporary roof over their heads until her new home could be built.
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- Life after Typhoon Haiyan Bishop Stephen Talmage and his group traveled to the Sitio Fermina neighborhood of Barangay Maya. In this neighborhood, Lutheran World Relief was intentional in collaborating with Habitat for Humanity in how best to organize resource and implement the rebuilding of a whole neighborhood.
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- Life after Typhoon Haiyan The group’s final stop was in Daanbantayan and a visit with Mayor Corro. The mayor – visiting here with Bishop Stephan Talmage, left, and Carl Stecker from ELCA Global Mission – said he is deeply appreciative of non-governmental organizations, such as Lutheran World Relief, a partner with Lutheran Disaster Response, which have responded faster than the national government.
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- baby blue All with whom the group visited affirmed their gratitude to God and the generous aid from around the world that is helping restore their communities. The group also met a symbol of hope and restoration – a baby born during the storm whose name is Yolanda, the local name for Typhoon Haiyan.
Typhoon Haiyan struck the Philippines on Nov. 8, 2013. More than 14 million people were affected and about 4 million people lost their homes. About 6,200 people died and more than 1,000 remain missing. An estimated 5.6 million people lost their livelihoods.
In June 2014, on behalf of Lutheran Disaster Response, Stephen S. Talmage, bishop of the ELCA Grand Canyon Synod; his wife, Barb; Carl Stecker, director of Diakonia for the ELCA; and others visited the Philippines “to view,” the bishop said, “how our initial and recent million-dollar gifts to Lutheran Disaster Response are doing God’s work with our hands.”
