How do I prove that many black churches are responding or black friends of mine who have volunteered with the Red Cross?
The President was just in Baton Rouge at a huge black church that was housing people and T. D. Jakes was with him.
The President thanked Jakes for organizing the outreach of churches, and I can almost guarantee those were black churches he was organizing, not white churches.
We just got back from delivering a ton of stuff to our rec department. We have 500+ evacuees at the moment staying at our 4-H / state park (cabins, conference hall etc) and will total about 1000 there. The authorities are busing them to the rec dept to pick out the things they need, they are trying to get everyone 3 changes of clothes, personal hygiene items, toys for kids, shoes... My husband was talking to a few of the evacs and he said they were actually in pretty good spirits. A volunteer brought one man 2 pairs of pants in his size, and he said he would only take 1 pair, because he was sure someone else could use the other pair.
We went and bought a few pairs of men's shoes also because they said that was one thing they were in short supply of.
I think we'll go to the 4-H camp one evening and take our soccer balls and see if we can get a pick-up game going, then leave the kids the soccer balls.
I had to keep our boys from giving away all their toys, but they did give a lot, and were very happy to do it, I am proud of them.
Thats so true on a local level many blacks are volunteering their churches and homes to the evacuees.
There are a lot of good people down in that area both black and white.
My comments were directed towards Jessie and Al and not to common sense Americans.
I have volunteered to go down for thirty days.
Maybe I will see you down there.
How do I prove that many black churches are responding or black friends of mine who have volunteered with the Red Cross?
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Try to see Video of President Bush with Rev J D Hakes? in a huge church sponsored relief center. It was on Fox about an hour ago.
You don't have to PROVE jack.
Your word is as good as gold on this forum.
Don't worry about proving anything. My bf attends a predominently black evangelical church. He and the pastor are friends from way back. I asked him what the church was going to do and help, and the pastor and the elders had a meeting yesterday afternoon. the pastor is also going to find the name of the woman who is accepting material donations. I'm going to call City Hall tomorrow, and see if they know who she is.
Okie, please don't make assumptions. These folks are poor, but they'll give their last buck to help out.