There was a big gathering of New Orleans’ homeless in front of City Hall Saturday.  I usually catch some of the local news every day, but I’ll be the first to say I didn’t hear anything about this until I came across the article on CBS News.  Maybe because it was an election weekend, we [...]

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Joe McKeever, the Director of Missions at the Baptist Association of Greater New Orleans (BAGNO), wrote a post on his blog a few weeks ago outlining the status of our local Baptist churches. He broke them down into three categories: struggling, flourishing but with issues, and normal. My church, Edgewater, fell under the [...]

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Last week I asked you to pray for our college students.  Now I’m asking you to pray for the entire public school system in New Orleans.  It’s no secret that the city was bankrupt before Katrina- you can imagine what it’s like afterward.  I’ve been told that the average public school graduate here has the [...]

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