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Photo of the Day: New Orleans 9th Ward Devastation

New Orleans 9th ward Originally uploaded by !!WaynePhotoGuy. This is just a hint of the devastation that we saw in the 9th ward section of New Orleans. On this Fat Tuesday it may be worthwhile remembering all those that lost … Continue reading

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New Orleans Trip Slide Show

If you recall a team from South Suburban Evangelical Free Church in Minnesota recently went on a trip to New Orleans to perform some Hurricane Katrina relief work and to care for some of the people effected by the storm … Continue reading

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Hurricane Katrina Relief: New Orleans Trip Report

By Paul Rivenburg February 4th – February 12th 2006 We left the parking lot of South Suburban on a very chilly Saturday morning. We drove in three different vans. At our lunch stop in Mount Pleasant, Iowa Ken discovered that … Continue reading

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New Orleans Hurricane Katrina Relief Trip Journal

Random thoughts from the New Orleans Hurricane Katrina Relief Trip Saturday 2/4/06 Everyone showed up at the church on time so that we were able to leave by 6:00 am sharp.  We left with light snow showers and a temperature … Continue reading

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New Orleans here we come.

Just two more days until we leave on our Hurrican Katrina Relief adventure to New Orleans.  The team currently consists of 9 women and 9 men.  I must say I am a bit surprised how balanced the team is.  We … Continue reading

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New Orleans Trip Countdown

Twelve days and counting for the Hurricane Katrina relief trip to New Orleans (see more stories here).  Everything seems to be going according to plans. I always have that little feeling in my stomach that everything may fall apart at … Continue reading

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New Orleans Trip Count Down

The count down to our departure date for the New Orleans Hurricane Katrina Relief trip has started.  We have just 18 days and counting.  Mission control will commence control at T minus 4 days.   I just had to throw this … Continue reading

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New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina Relief Trip

We, the relief team from SSEFC had our first training meeting last night for our trip down to hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans.  You can find previous post on the trip here and here. We have or maybe 21 people … Continue reading

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Hurricane Katrina Relief Trip

The plan making process continues to progress for my trip to “war torn” New Orleans.  If you recall from a previous post,  I will be leading a group from my church as we go down to New Orleans to help … Continue reading

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Black ‘leaders’ caught in Katrina lie

Can you believe it, there really was no racism in the way that the government responded to the Hurricane Katrina catastrophy?  In a recent commentary, Black ‘leaders’ caught in Katrina lie Kevin McCollough points how slanted the coverage was about … Continue reading

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Katrina Relief: Urban Impact

Plans are being made at my church for a team to go down to New Orleans Louisiana to help in the Katrina recovery effort.   Our main plan is to help some of the people that have seen their lives totally … Continue reading

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Katrina, blacks and poverty

Star Parker comments on why so many black Americans continue to stay in poverty for so long. Her conclusions: Low income housing has been such a failure for the past 40 years. social "scientists" view poor blacks as simple laboratory … Continue reading

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Crossing Cultures

My wife found an interesting story in the Minneapolis Star Tribune today Best intentions weren’t enough to make a home.  The tribe seems to write is as if some horrible disaster occured.  The basic story is that a (white) family … Continue reading

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Katrina Recovery – Part 3

Yesterday we evacuated to Utica, Mississippi.  Six hour drive with 90 staff in 9 minivans, 2 sedans and one chase truck with all our luggage.  At this point the storm is heading right where we were – good move on … Continue reading

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Guns come to the rescue

It looks like having your own arsenal is what may have saved the lives of several survivors of Katrina. "The hurricane was a breeze compared with the crime and terror that followed," said Gregg Harris, a psychotherapist who lives in … Continue reading

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Note from Congressman John Kline

Hey, my Congressman John Kline sent me a personal note.  Ok another 250,000 supporters got the same personal note but that doesn’t sound quite as impressive.  Anyway I thought it would be worthwhile to let you read it. __________________________ For … Continue reading

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Ann Coulter always makes me laugh

Ann Coulter always makes me laugh.  Check out her commentary. Link: Actually, ‘judicial activism’ means ‘E=mc2’. Democrats are so excited about Hurricane Katrina, they’re thinking of moving "Camp Casey" to an area outside the National Weather Service. What they haven’t … Continue reading

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Katrina: Whose Victory, Exactly?

I think Anne Applebaum at the Washington Post has it right, the reaction to Katrina has been a miracle and if we can get past the political posturing I think we would be able to see more.  Here is an … Continue reading

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How to “Fix” New Orleans

In the New York Times, David Brooks has an eye opening commentary on how to fix New Orleans. Link: Katrina’s Silver Lining – New York Times.  In his words, "Katrina was a natural disaster that interrupted a social disaster."  The … Continue reading

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When Catastrophe Strikes

Eberhard Arnold Only when we take human existence upon ourselves in its starkest and most humiliating misery—a misery in which nothing has meaning—can we win through to the only possible way to live. Only when we taste the lot of … Continue reading

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Katrina Looting Unabated

We are receiving reports of rampant looting in New Orleans and other cities.  Link: Crime, looting unabated.  Yes I know the press can over-emphacise the negative of any situation, but there must indeed be significant instances of looting. I’m sure … Continue reading

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