The LDS Church's Welfare Department is working with its Philippine Area leaders to establish a relief-operations center and distribute supplies, a church spokesman said Wednesday. Church leaders are encouraging members around the world to pray for suffering Filipinos and consider making donations.
Meanwhile, the 204 missionaries evacuated from the Tacloban Mission on storm-ravaged Leyte island will all be in Manila by Friday to await reassignment. Missionaries in other areas are preparing to join relief efforts.