lucille talusan, cbn news, north cotabato philippines. >>> up next on "christian world news," ministry of micro financi financing, how small l changing lives around the world. >> welcome back, more than a billion people in developing countries live on a dollar a day. the poorest people in the world can be turned into entrepreneurs with loans of $100 or more. efrem graham reports on this growing concept of micro finance. >> reporter: breathtaking beaches lure millions to the dominican republic. >> you have a reality of people with a lot of worth and suv vehicles. that is not the worth of 9.5 million dominicans. >> some of that 60 percent live in poor communities where jobs are nearly impossible to find. then there are areas of the dominican republic built on the sugar cane. communities known as the haitian batay community. >> many don't have documents. even though they might have been born, they are not citizens of the dominican republic. thought of going to haiti isn't great. >> that can easily lead to hopelessness, so many people living on little more than a dollar a day. >> the globa

lucille talusan has more. >> reporter: the earthquake triggered landslides burying two villages in the province claiming the lives of 51 people and scores more remain missing. the disaster wiped out houses, bridges and other infrastructure in the surrounding territoriete. >> more than 100 houses swept away by strong waves. >> even a 16-year-old house church didn't escape the waves, flattened on the ground several meters away. the pastor is crying not over the loss but because his wife and granddaughter being carried away survived. the calamity has given him more purpose in life. >> i am not giving up. everything that we have comes from him. our life, our intellect. we use them to please the world. all of this is a reminder god is the god of order and he is the most powerful one. >> the pastor called on the assemblies of god church shares how he experienced god's power. >> i commanded the wave. i said stop in jesus' name. go back to where you belong. the waves stop and went back into the sea. my prayer was lord, save the people, open their spiritual eyes. let them know the truth, jesus

lucille talusan reports cbn is helping them survive the hard times. >> the horror as this woman shared how she and her family narrowly escaped a landslide triggered by the earthquake. >> the tremors were so strong. we ran away from our house as fast as we can. i saw this huge amount of earth covered our house. in a wink of an eye, we lost everything including my father-in-law who was trapped inside the house. >> she is 7 months preg nantd. she says it is a miracle she and her husband and 5-year-old son survived. >> the ground was shaking really hard. my husband and i raised our hands and shouted, lord, if this is our time to die, take us. we are ready. if this is not yet our time, please stop the earthquake. >> her father-in-law is among the more than 100 people missing after the earthquake hit. they now live in a former goat den. their house and small vegetable plantation were swallowed in the landslide. she and her husband rely on relief to feed their 7 children. their village is in the mountains and roads susceptible to landslides. they are so relieved cbn came to help. >> this is o