HURRICANE
RELIEF SUPPORT
DONATE
FINANCIALLY:
JOURNEY
CHRISTIAN CHURCH (NEW ORLEANS) - FCCR is
partnering with the Journey Christian Church
(www.journeyneworleans.com)
in West New Orleans (Jefferson Parish) to minister
to people
in the
affected areas by
helping to meet physical, emotional and spiritual
needs.
*
Churches in all 50
states and 7 countries have offered
their help.
* Over $1.3 million
has been raised to
help people rebuild lives.
* An
Advisory Board has been established
to provide strict
guidelines of accountability for the disbursement of
funds.
* The financial gifts are ebbing
used to help people buy food,
clothing, construction supplies and materials,
and to provide assistance for those who have been
displaced.
Rick Grover,
Journey's Lead Minister, says, "One family
we recently helped is from Journey Christian Church.
They called me from Picayune, Mississippi where they
have been displaced. They lost everything in the
flood and were living in a tent with
their eighty-year
old mother! We were able to assist them with buying
food, helping them pay bills,
and getting them back on their feet again. Now their
house is almost completely reconstructed, and they
will be moving back home next week! Thank you for
making it possible to help Eddie and his mother.
We ask that you continue
to pray for us and for all
those affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We
praise God for the response from churches and
individuals all over the country, and we pray that
God will use this spirit of unity to make a
long-term impact for His glory!"
Journey is a new
church plant and is sponsored by STADIA, a new
church strategies organization. You can make an
online donation to Journey by going to STADIA's web
site (www.stadia.cc).
The
needs are still overwhelming, but God is able to do
all things through His people.
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IDES
(International Disaster Emergency Services)
in Indiana is an organization whose mission is to
serve as a channel through which Christian Churches
and Churches of Christ and individual Christians can
meet the physical and spiritual needs
of suffering people throughout the world. Their web
site
www.ides.org
has already posted information on how they plan to
help and people can even donate with a credit card
if they so choose. 100%
of the donated money goes to those in need.
Their address is
I.D.E.S.
P.O. Box 60
Kempton, IN 46049
ides@ides.org
(765) 947-5100
IDES has responded to
the relief efforts with the the following financial
support:
FUNDS SENT TO DATE:
$12,500.00 SENT TO Real Life Ministries of
Louisiana, Pineville, LA 71360 working with
evacuees.
$25,000.00 SENT TO Fern Creek Christian Church,
Louisville, KY doing cleanup work in MS
$10,000.00 SENT TO Bay Area
Christian Church, Houston, TX providing food for
evacuees.
$2,490.00 SENT TO
Normanda Christian Church, Tipton, IN Bibles to
accompany a trailer full of supplies.
$7,914.10 SENT TO Branchville Christian Church,
Branchville, SC. 166 tents were purchased and
taken to Pearlington, MS and given to a portion of
400 families who have lost everything.
$20,000.00 SENT TO Oak Ridge Church of Christ,
Weatherford, TX - church is working with survivors
to provide food, clothing etc.
$90,000.00 SENT TO Christian Church of Slidell,
Slidell, LA to help rebuild the church.
$20,000.00 PROVIDED to Keith Wood, IDES Director
of Development to
lead work crews to LA to help in the area of
Slidell,
LA.
IDES
has been in contact with Rick Grover of
Journey Christian Church in New Orleans
to coordinate the scheduling of work crews as
soon as they can.
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DONATE RELIEF
ITEMS:
DONATE RELIEF
ITEMS FCCR is collecting donated items and will
be distributing them to the partner organizations in
the metro Atlanta area participating in the relief
effort and / or
delivering them to Journey Christian Church in New
Orleans.
NEEDED items include: NOTE: Please
consider making toiletry & first aid kits by placing
those items in gallon plastic bags.
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