Charity knows no boundaries

From time to time the Grand Lodge of Michigan receives requests from around the world through other Grand Lodges, for assistance to relieve their membership of burdens that natural disasters cause. Such was the case today when I received a dispatch from the Masonic Service Association who handles these global requests for help. In part it says:

            Torrential rains and massive flooding have caused thousands of families to be evacuated from homes in Serbia and surrounding regions.  One comment regarding the areas affected is that “Everything is destroyed.”  News reports say that the equivalent of three months of rainfall occurred in three days, creating the “worst floods since records began being kept 120 years ago. They described “floods of Biblical proportion,” and said that animals and food stock “have been extinguished.”  There is also a fear of subsequent disease from water and destruction.”
It is an opportunity for individual Masons, our Lodges and ultimately the Grand Lodge of Michigan to relieve the distressed. Such is the obligation we have taken as men and Masons.