August 17, 2006
In Disaster Planning, Focus on Local Charities
It has been only a year since Hurricane Katrina unleashed her deadly force, but already we are forgetting one of the most important lessons of that harrowing experience: Where governments and national charities failed, local churches and community organizations stepped in.
Soup kitchens, community centers, and congregations of all denominations plugged the holes and spelled the difference for many whose lives hung in the balance. We forget this reality at our peril, because local
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