Intelligent Travel, National Geographic Traveler’s blog, posted a list of organizations that you can volunteer through to help New Orleans recover and rebuild. I wanted to add to that list my home church, Edgewater Baptist Church, and the North American Mission Board’s Operation NOAH.

Also, they used one of my photos in their post, which [...]

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Wednesday night at Edgewater we had a Fall Festival. I know it’s commonplace for many churches to have Fall Festivals instead of Halloween, but in New Orleans post-Katrina it’s especially important to have safe events for kids to have a good time. I had several families mention how glad they were we had [...]

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Tonight I preached for the first time since February 2006, and it’s only one of a few opportunities since I left Mobile to come to seminary in 2004.  For someone who had gotten use to being heard on a regular basis, to preach tonight was an incredible blessing- one I didn’t take for granted.  Maybe [...]

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Here’s a story I’ve heard twice this week from the building coordinator at Edgewater Baptist Church in New Orleans. (That’s my church.)
We had a team of Baptists from Georgia scheduled to work on our sanctuary for last week. Two weeks ago, we found out that the sanctuary had suffered extreme termite damage over [...]

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