Title: Restoring faith, home and community in the Name of Jesus to the survivors of Katrina
1Restoring faith, home and community in the Name
of Jesus to the survivors of Katrina
2Three 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
3Hurricane Katrina Aug. 29, 2005
http//kyw.iewatershed.com/media/envirocast/katrin
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4 87,000 square miles
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated 90,000
square miles
5Gulfport, MS
6New Orleans Levee System
7MRGO floodgate
Lower 9th Ward (Industrial Canal)
17th Street Canal
New Orleans East (Intracoastal Waterway)
8New Orleans Flooding
Jefferson Parish (Metairie, Kenner)
Orleans, St. Bernard Parishes
http//veimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/20263/neworleans_l7_
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36Stress
- Families split apart
- Jobs lost
- Hundreds of thousands of homes damaged/destroyed
- Living in FEMA trailers
- Moving from city to city
- Children changing schools
37Mental 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)
38So, why live on the Gulf Coast?
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30,600 semi trucks
over 1,000,000 TONS
40Seafood Industry
- Louisianas commercial fishing is a 2.5
billion/year industry , or 25 of all seafood in
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Louisiana Mississippi fishing over 3 billion
/ year
41Oil and Natural Gas
Energy
http//www6.tltc.ttu.edu/nagihara/gis/Research/res
earch.htm
http//www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14678206/
42NASA
43History/Culture
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55Levee Improvements
56http//www.gnocdc.org/
57- Camp Restore, New Orleans
- Camp Biloxi, Biloxi Mississippi
58Camp Restore New Orleans East
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64Camp Biloxi
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69Volunteers
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93Construction Volunteer Opportunities
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100Non- Construction Volunteer Opportunities
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102Taking Jesus to the Streets
103Love Your Neighbor Gloria Dei Lutheran
Church New Orleans LA
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108The Survivors
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122House Blessing
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128Rebuild 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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130http//www.gnocdc.org/
131http//www.gnocdc.org/
132A Tale of Two Cities
133Providing 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.
134Bring the Hope of Jesus
135Ways 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
136To Learn More
- Go to www.RAIMinistries.org for news, updates,
and volunteer registration. - Join our Facebook Groups
- Camp Biloxi!
- Camp Restore!
137www.RAIMinistries.org