Help New Orleans Victims needed...........

[RACEBUICKS]

My wife and daughter decided to join our church's youth mission trip this year and they have gone to New Orleans to help out flood victims rebuild stuff. My wife just called and was in tears because of what she saw down there. She said not everyone can live in a fema house, some are still living like its the stone ages. She was told that the death rate was in the 1300 a month(?) from under 500 or so since Katrina. She was told that a chuch in the area was nearly under water and 30 plus people went over a week and a half in the 100 degree plus without water, food, or a bathroom before being rescued. She also added that they may have survived the hurricaine but wont survive the health issues everyone has now because of it. She said that it still smells like dampness still almost like the smell of wet dog poop. Everywhere you look you can see what the water damage has done. Nothing she has seen on the internet or on the news prepared her for what she is working in there. The church they are staying in is at 51st and Franklin and they are all sleeping on cots in the church. The church is sponsoring them with a place to stay and meals. They get to help out with landscaping today. The wife will be planting scrubs and plants and the daughter gets to go help clean another yard a couple blocks away. They both are on teams of 8 or so and will be there all week.

My request here is that if you can pray for the workers and the people who live there in N.O. please do so. They are not done getting back on their feet. If you can financially send money to help send it to the church at

GENTILLY BAPTIST CHURCH
5141 Franklin Ave.,
New Orleans, LA. 70122

If you want to go there to volunteer call them and see what you can do to help.

Phone: (504) 282-6467

The church needs money to buy supplies to feed and house those that are there to help out plus to buy things needed to rebuild the area around them. Look at this webpage and read about what is going on there.
http://www.namb.net/site/apps/nl/con...361&ct=3876941


These AMERICANS still need help and alot more prayers please help if you can.

 

[sasmith350]

She was told that the death rate was in the 1300 a month(?) from under 500 or so since Katrina.


30 plus people went over a week and a half in the 100 degree plus without water, food, or a bathroom before being rescued.


She also added that they may have survived the hurricaine but wont survive the health issues everyone has now because of it.


Everywhere you look you can see what the water damage has done.


They get to help out with landscaping today. The wife will be plantingscrubs and plants and the daughter gets to go help clean another yard a couple blocks away. They both are on teams of 8 or so and will be there all week.

My request here is that if you can pray for the workers and the people who live there in N.O. please do so. They are not done getting back on their feet. If you can financially send money to help send it to the church at

GENTILLY BAPTIST CHURCH
5141 Franklin Ave.,
New Orleans, LA. 70122

If you want to go there to volunteer call them and see what you can do to help.

Phone: (504) 282-6467

The church needs money to buy supplies to feed and house those that are there to help out plus to buy things needed to rebuild the area around them. Look at this webpage and read about what is going on there.
http://www.namb.net/site/apps/nl/con...361&ct=3876941


These AMERICANS still need help and alot more prayers please help if you can.

rather than doing landscaping work...why not clean debris and rebuild homes...if people are still dying at such a large rate i think that would be a higher priority....having a pretty yard doesn't mean much if you can't live in the home....but that's just my opinion.

 

[RACEBUICKS]

rather than doing landscaping work...why not clean debris and rebuild homes...if people are still dying at such a large rate i think that would be a higher priority....having a pretty yard doesn't mean much if you can't live in the home....but that's just my opinion.

well picking up the trash and debris is where it all starts. Plants make o2 so planting and cleaning yards is landscaping. Cleaning trash doesnt sound so nice. but its the same in this case.

 

[sasmith350]

well picking up the trash and debris is where it all starts. Plants make o2 so planting and cleaning yards is landscaping. Cleaning trash doesnt sound so nice. but its the same in this case.

ok...sorry i was confused, when i hear landscaping i immediately think flowers and pretty stuff, not cleanup and drudge work.