Pray for Sendai... please just do it

And it just gets more and more intense. I'm sure you've been watching / reading the news. In Sendai there are at least 10,000 dead. When I read this number in Japanese I checked the character for "10,000" twice, hoping I had misread the first time. By the time most people read this that number is expected to be even larger.

Tokyo's still a different world than Sendai. The most felt consequences are a food and electricity shortage. Tomorrow certain cities and parts of cities will be systematically shut down to compensate for (now three) malfuntioning power plants, one of which has had an explosion. The power outages are expected to last until the end of April. The aforementioned supermarket from my previous post has sold out of pretty much anything useful. This picture is actually from the kombini from Friday but there are a lot of shelves that look pretty much the same.

My church got it rather bad. It's still standing but I don't think I'd want to continue going if they don't get an inspector in soon. Here's what the wall looks like now:

Tomorrow is going to be a weird day at work. People are still coming to terms with things. I can't tell whether tomorrow will be "business as usual" or "everything's different now". Either way, it just seems a bit off to go back to the usual routine, even for a work-crazed city like Tokyo. We'll see if I'm over-analysing this.

Those of you who would, I ask you to continue in your prayers for Japan. There are too many areas of need to name, so please pray as you are lead. The most urgent needs I can think of are rescue efforts in Sendai, the 70% chance of another ~7.0 quake this week, and the possibility of some level of meltdown at the nuclear power station (Fukushima 1, I think). Also, please keep in consideration that the vast majority (over 99%) of Japanese are not Christian. There is an intense spiritual need in all this.