Why George Bush hasn’t spent the last five years sandbagging the levee in New Orleans is a real mystery to some people. Michael Spencer at BHT.
If it were not for some of these churches in rural areas there would be very little help if any. This disaster has shown me how much the Red Cross relies on SBC disaster relief. SBC disaster relief does all the cooking around here for the Red Cross. We do not get any credit for the good things we do as a denomination only bad press from our conventions and dumb things some pastors say. Aaron Arledge at BHT (blogging from Slidell, LA)
Before (the hurricane), I’d thought maybe we have too much stuff, but watching thousands of people on tv who have lost absolutely everything, now I am certain we have too much. It’s time to let it go because I no longer feel right, or peaceful, about owning it–or its owning me. Debra at As I See It Now
As we looked around our church property we saw nothing where it used to be. I pointed to where the piano used to be. It now lays shattered across the road. I pointed to where the steeple used to stand. Katrina tossed it into the woods on the back corner of our property. . . . All their things aren’t where they used to be, but God is still where He has always been – on his thrown (throne), ruling, reigning, and governing all things for His glory. He will establish our feet on the solid ground of His provision and we believe He will use this catastrophe to amplify the truth of His word and call many to anchor their hope in Him. Locusts and Wild Honey on Church Sunday 11:00
A word about the Baptists. My dad and stepmom fled north from Covington, La. In Monroe, La., they saw a handwritten sign “Refugee Center”. They said they were treated like royalty the week they stayed there. They made friends for life and said they were made to feel like family. My dad even went to a church service, unprovoked. My folks gushed over the welcome they recieved. –One of Michelle Malkin’s readers.
A caller to the Rush Limbaugh program: An African-American woman, 55 years old, summed up the local response in Louisiana better than anybody I’ve heard so far. “I’ll bet they had those buses runnin’ on election day!” Booya! Doug Powers at Men’s News Daily Blog
I am thinking I will take Hugh Hewitt’s advice and make my donation to one of the smaller, local organizations like civic and church groups who are directly dealing with evacuees, rather than to any more bloated bureaucratic sorts of groups. This is not the first time, I think, that the Red Cross has thrown up its hands and said, “we don’t know where the money went,” and that’s not good enough.The Anchoress
Finally, some local organizations (mostly churches) that I would suggest that you could send your donations to: