Continued Relief

Today, Champion Forest announced our long terms plans to help those displaced by Hurricane Katrina. Over the next 90 days, we will be paying for over 100 families to stay in nearby hotels [Read about it here]. The cost is roughly $10,000 a day (or around $1 million total), but I am guessing that most of the cost was paid for today.
It was a great challenge, and I think the church body is up for it. And at least it’s clear that we are doing good things to help people. Sure, we’re not a Red Cross shelter, but we’re providing a way for people to live in a dignified manner–and that’s awesome!
On another Katrina note, I found this great video [it's a zip file, download it then unzip it] produced by Ecclesia in Houston. [Via]

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1 response to “Continued Relief”

  1. #1. Brian B on September 26th, 2005 at 12:51 pm

    I spent a week helping at the shelter at ChristChurch Baptist Fellowship, and can say without hesitation that you folks from CFBC were a HUGE help. God bless you.