The church I attend, Hunter Hills in Prattville, Alabama has set a plan for assisting in the disaster relief efforts. We have ties to a church in Sidell, Mississippi and will be focusing our efforts to help in that area. To that end, the plan that has been laid forth is to repair the Gulf Port Bible camp and then use it as a place to house evacuees (I don't like the term refugees...it sounds so 3rd worldish) as well as a base camp for volunteers who goe down to work.
Because the camp is rural, the water is clean (unlike all the communities that use city water) and the electrical system can be unhooked from the city and be run on a generator. We already have sent a team down there to survey the damage and determine a plan to rebuild. They will return today, gather supplies and then head back down and fix the camp. Once the camp is back up, there will be a place for evacuees to get hot meals, hot showers, and drinking water. I think it is a great idea. A central location that is up and running will act as an organizational point for cleanup and restoration.
Anyway, you can keep tabs on the status of this project or assist in anyway, please go to http://www.hunterhills.org/hunterhills/katrina/index.htm.
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