How did church help Katrina victims ?

[Biscuit]

Hi guys,

I am in southern Mississippi and have been out of the loop. I am looking for info or a link which pertains to how the church or Christians have helped Katrina victims. Some people say the first people who reached them to help were not Red Cross, national guard, FEMA, but members of church congregations (i.e. from Alabama). I know the Southern Baptists have a big relief effort.

I ask for this because I have family members who state the church is not what it used to be and no longer helps people. I would like to show them some statistics or examples of help. Would appreciate any assistance.

[Christ's Free Servant]

Hi guys,

I am in southern Mississippi and have been out of the loop. I am looking for info or a link which pertains to how the church or Christians have helped Katrina victims. Some people say the first people who reached them to help were not Red Cross, national guard, FEMA, but members of church congregations (i.e. from Alabama). I know the Southern Baptists have a big relief effort.

I ask for this because I have family members who state the church is not what it used to be and no longer helps people. I would like to show them some statistics or examples of help. Would appreciate any assistance. 

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I imagine the Billy Graham ministries has a website you can go to. They seemed to be on the scene a lot and have records of churches helping. I have seen a lot on the news, too, about churches reaching out to help and house the evacuuees. We have three families living in our apartment community from N.O. and we plan to help them financially during the transition.

[other one]

Hi guys,

I am in southern Mississippi and have been out of the loop. I am looking for info or a link which pertains to how the church or Christians have helped Katrina victims. Some people say the first people who reached them to help were not Red Cross, national guard, FEMA, but members of church congregations (i.e. from Alabama). I know the Southern Baptists have a big relief effort.

I ask for this because I have family members who state the church is not what it used to be and no longer helps people. I would like to show them some statistics or examples of help. Would appreciate any assistance. 

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I did a google search on "church or Christians have helped Katrina" and the following was listed just on the first three pages...

http://www.christianitytoday.com/tc/2005/004/19.00.html

http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=21546

http://www.houmatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/ar...AKING/509050308

http://www.houmatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/ar...AKING/509050308

http://www.salvationarmysouth.org/spiritua...recedented.html

http://www.promisekeepers.org/katrina

http://www.altamesa.org/plain/katrina

[irishcowboy]

Churches in south east Kansas and south west Missouri are and have been sending people down for a couple weeks or so.....

our son just arrived home this morning about 1:00am, has done his laundry, and is now on his way back down with more (60) bibles and with a group of people from several churches towards their staging area of Baton Rouge..... where they wil split up to head out in different directions to do work....

they have had loads of people going down since right after the storm passed, and have schedualed loads planned for the rest of this month and into next month...

we can not go, so we are sponsoring a missionary to go, because he can not afford to go... like a team......

Christ not only met peoples physical needs, but also their spiritual needs......

mike

[NITE OWL]

This is a little off the subject, but I was just wondering.

According to stats. there are approx. 189,983,000 christians in the U.S. (aneki.com)

Another site estimates about 224,437,000. (adherents.com)

If each christian gave just one dollar a week for one month, how many homes do you suppose that would build?

Just a thought.

[Guest iamsoblessed]

we lost a total of 20 penecostal churches..i know the UPC has been sending in donations from all over the world T.D jakes, joel olsteen, paula white, trinity broadcasting are a few others