A week after Venezuela’s twin earthquakes, the crisis has moved beyond rescue into something just as urgent: untreated wounds, damaged hospitals, and thousands of families without clean water or shelter.
“If one part suffers, every part suffers with it.” (1 Corinthians 12:26)
Many in the Paz y Esperanza family have loved ones who are hurting deeply this week. We invite you to join us in solidarity, in prayer and in financial support, for Venezuela.
We are in touch with local church leaders who have been faithfully serving their communities through more than a decade of economic and political crisis. These churches are already responding, from organizing collection centers for food and water to emergency funds for displaced families, but they need more hands and more resources to meet the scale of the need. This is what local peacebuilding looks like in a moment of disaster: not outsiders arriving with answers, but neighbors who have never left, showing up again.
As of July 1st, Venezuelan officials have counted 1,943 deaths and more than 10,500 injuries, with over 40,600 people still missing or unaccounted for. Doctors now warn that untreated wounds and infection are becoming the greatest danger to survivors, as hospitals, many damaged in the quakes, struggle with shortages of basic medical supplies.
PHI exists to come alongside local leaders like these. Right now, that means standing with our brothers and sisters in Venezuela with everything we can offer.
Will you help us respond?
Your gift today will support the pastors and churches already on the ground doing this work. And we’re asking for something else too: your prayers. For the families still searching for the missing. For the injured, in hospitals stretched past their limits. For the exhausted pastors and volunteers holding their communities together. For the peace that only comes when people know they are not alone.
“They will rebuild the ancient ruins and will raise up the age-old foundations; you will be called Repairer of Broken Walls, Restorer of Streets with Dwellings.” (Isaiah 58:12)
Because peace brings life, even now.
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