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Title: Restoring faith, home and community in the Name of Jesus to the survivors of Katrina


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Restoring faith, home and community in the Name
of Jesus to the survivors of Katrina
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Three reasons I am here
  • To say Thanks!
  • To tell our story
  • To invite you to
  • - Keep Praying
  • - Keep sharing the story
  • - Volunteer or encourage volunteers
  • -Help raise funds

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Hurricane Katrina Aug. 29, 2005
http//kyw.iewatershed.com/media/envirocast/katrin
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87,000 square miles
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated 90,000
square miles
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Gulfport, MS
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New Orleans Levee System
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MRGO floodgate
Lower 9th Ward (Industrial Canal)
17th Street Canal
New Orleans East (Intracoastal Waterway)
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New Orleans Flooding
Jefferson Parish (Metairie, Kenner)
Orleans, St. Bernard Parishes
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Stress
  • Families split apart
  • Jobs lost
  • Hundreds of thousands of homes damaged/destroyed
  • Living in FEMA trailers
  • Moving from city to city
  • Children changing schools

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Mental Health
  • More than 35 percent of New Orleanians developed
    mental disorders after Hurricane Katrina
  • Suicide rate tripled
  • Lack of mental health care one police unit was
    handling 150 to 180 distress calls a month.

NY Times, June 2006
(Medical News Today, Dec. 2007)
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So, why live on the Gulf Coast?
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Shipping
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19 Cargo Ships
30,600 semi trucks
over 1,000,000 TONS
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Seafood Industry
  • Louisianas commercial fishing is a 2.5
    billion/year industry , or 25 of all seafood in
    America.

Louisiana Mississippi fishing over 3 billion
/ year
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Oil and Natural Gas
Energy
http//www6.tltc.ttu.edu/nagihara/gis/Research/res
earch.htm
http//www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14678206/
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NASA
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History/Culture
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Levee Improvements
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http//www.gnocdc.org/
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  • Camp Restore, New Orleans
  • Camp Biloxi, Biloxi Mississippi

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Camp Restore New Orleans East
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Camp Biloxi
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Volunteers
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Construction Volunteer Opportunities
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Non- Construction Volunteer Opportunities
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Taking Jesus to the Streets
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Love Your Neighbor Gloria Dei Lutheran
Church New Orleans LA
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The Survivors
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House Blessing
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Rebuild progress
  • Major work completed on over 2,700 homes minor
    repairs on over 3,900
  • Over 2,500 currently on waiting list
  • 63,000 blighted or vacant properties in New
    Orleans alone (Jan. 2009)
  • 2,342 temporary housing units (trailers, mobile
    homes) still in service in Mississippi

http//www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id47758
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http//www.gnocdc.org/
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http//www.gnocdc.org/
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A Tale of Two Cities
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Providing Hope
  • Humans can live approximately
  • 60 days without food...
  • 6 days without water...
  • 6 minutes without air.
  • It is said that humans cannot live at all
    without HOPE.

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Bring the Hope of Jesus
  • Among the Debris

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Ways you can help restore faith, home and
community to the Gulf Coast
  • Pray for our ministry and the people of the Gulf
    Coast
  • Volunteer
  • Become a Disaster Ambassador share the story
  • Support financially

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To Learn More
  • Go to www.RAIMinistries.org for news, updates,
    and volunteer registration.
  • Join our Facebook Groups
  • Camp Biloxi!
  • Camp Restore!

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www.RAIMinistries.org
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