September 06, 2005

Going to Louisiana

The town that I will be heading to on September 23rd is Hammond, LA. I along with a couple of other people will be taking a trailer or two down with supplies to be distributed out of First Baptist Church in Hammond. Supplies will include hygiene products, insect repellent, non-perishable snack items, coloring books, children's Bibles, baby food, diapers, toys and stuffed animals. The items of the most need right now are diapers and baby food.

This is being sponsored by the Walk Ministries in Nashville and headed up by my friend Mark Lancaster whose brother, Jim Lancaster, is the pastor of First Baptist in Hammond.

According to Jim, the roof of their church was blown off, but they are currently working on temporarily fixing it so that they can take in refugees from New Orleans. Other churches in the area are filled up, and more and more people are coming in daily.

If you'd like to make a donation, you can make a check out to Walk Ministries and send it to:

Walk Ministries
PO Box 148635
Nashville, TN 37214

If you'd like to donate items (especially baby food or diapers or even canned goods), I will try to get information on where you can bring those items or I can pick them up...just email me at blake -at- nashvillefiles.com.

As they told us...Anything and everything will help.

More: Several people have offered clothing. We aren't taking clothing on this particular trip, but if you do want to donate clothing, there is a group that will be delivering clothing out of Franklin. Here are the details:

Clothing is desperately needed for the thousands who have lost everything. Go through your closets and sort out the clothes you are not wearing, bag them, and bring them to Golf House Tennessee, 400 Franklin Rd., Franklin, TN, today (9/6), tomorrow (9/7) or Thursday, September (9/8) between 9:00 am and 5:00 pm. Outback Steakhouse's trucks will then transport the clothing to New Orleans or Baton Rouge. The Tennessee Golf Foundation (a 501(c)3 corporation) will give you a receipt for your donation. Directions.

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Good luck Blake.

Posted by: Glen Dean at September 6, 2005 12:38 PM

Now who's friggin' awesome. Rock on.

Posted by: Jill at September 6, 2005 08:31 PM