Randi Walle

“THE SITUATION IS CRITICAL… CHAOTIC. THE NEEDS ARE OVERWHELMING,” reports Dan O’Deens from the hurricane refugee center in Shreveport, Louisiana. O’Deens, senior pastor of Gateway Grace Community Church in Parkesburg, PA, has been named coordinator for Northwest Louisiana for a major relief agency. That means he is responsible to care for the basic needs of

“THE SITUATION IS CRITICAL … CHAOTIC. THE NEEDS ARE OVERWHELMING,” reports Dan O’Deens from the hurricane refugee center in Shreveport, Louisiana. O’Deens, senior pastor of Gateway Grace Community Church in Parkesburg, PA, has been named coordinator of a major relief agency for Northwest Louisiana. That means he is responsible to care for the basic needs

Terry Hofecker, pastor of Northwest Chapel Grace Brethren Fellowship, is currently embedded as a law enforcement chaplain with a unit in New Orleans. Here is a report he sent for sharing with the Fellowship: I am a law enforcement chaplain attached to a five-person crisis responseteam that is assessing the present emotional and spiritual devastation

Nine chainsaws plus six minutes equals one tree down and cut up! 

This is some of the devastation Jim Brown and crew are facing in Mobile, Alabama. 

Pat Phillips, BMH board member and lay leader at the Columbus (OH) East Side Grace Brethren Church (Chip Heim, pastor), has sent along the following report of how East Side has teamed with a Houston church to help Katrina victims: After having served as youth pastor and associate pastor at East Side GBC in Columbus,

Online registrations are now open for the five Focus Retreats to be held in various locations around the U.S. during this coming fall, winter, and spring. Organized and implemented by Fellowship Coordinator Tom Avey, the Focus Retreats are for pastors, church staff, and lay leaders. The theme this year will be “Truth on Fire” and

Ivanildo Trindade, associate pastor of outreach ministries at the Wooster (OH) Grace Brethren Church, informs us of the following: We have been busy preparing a team (“chain saw” unit) which is leaving later this week to the Gulf. This will be he first of several teams we are hoping to send. Also getting ready for

Relayed through Gay O’Deens, wife of pastor Dan O’Deens, here is an update as of Monday evening, Labor Day: Monday Sept 5thDan called tonight and Shreveport, Louisiana, Red Cross Chapter is at least feeling structurally organized. They have been in close contact with Baton Rouge where a national headquarters is set up. Shreveport is housing