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September 05, 2005

Blog for Relief

This entry is post-dated to appear at the top of the site until Labor Day evening.

Our hearts continue to break as we learn of the devastation left wrought by Hurricane Katrina. The toll in terms of lives and property is staggering. Hundreds if not thousands are dead across the Gulf Coast and upwards to a million more may be homeless for months to come.

Blog for Relief was organized by Hugh Hewitt, Instapundit and N.Z. Bear to raise support for charities providing immediate and long-term relief to victims of this great tragedy.

Stones Cry Out urges our readers to give freely today and in weeks to come to the Salvation Army's Katrina Relief Fund.

Salvation Army Donate Now

Click on the button above to give now, or call 1-800-SAL-ARMY. To donate by mail, send checks, earmarked 'disaster relief,' to PO BOX 4857 JACKSON, MS 39296-4857. You can also give at your local Wal-Mart or Sam's Club.

Our readers may wonder why we selected the Salvation Army over all the other great charities providing relief in the Gulf Coast region. To borrow their slogan, we feel they can do the most good with the Lord's money in this situation. The Salvation Army is set up to respond to domestic disasters; it is one of their distinct abilities. They also have an incarnational ministry in the gritty parts of cities such as New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast. For these reasons, we believe that the Salvation Army will be serving victims long after many other relief agencies leave. In addition, the Army has always understood the importance of meeting both deeply spiritual and urgently temporal human needs, and they will do so in the aftermath of this tragedy. This article describes the Army's response to Katrina and capability for further service.

Instapundit has a running list of bloggers participating in Blog for Relief and recommended charities. If you are a blogger and want to participate, visit Truth Laid Bear to sign up.

Also, please log your contribution here - and please note you can do so anonymously - giving neither your name nor blog site. Either way, this will allow us to see what a unified blogosphere can do to make a difference in the lives of so many.

As lights in this world, Christians ought to lead in giving of time, money, and prayer. Please. Prayerfully consider a gift to the Salvation Army today. Then drop to your knees and ask God what else He can have you do to serve in a time of great need.

If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. 1 John 3:17-18
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Comments

In McCurtain County, the cities of Idabel and Broken Bow which is two hours from Shreveport. They are setting up shelters for any hurricane katrina refugee. The shelters are at fellowship halls and youth camps at Beavers Bend State Park.
They are willing and wanting to help. spread the word.

Posted by: kay at September 2, 2005 07:35 AM

Christians, Jews, atheists, secularists, Americans are united in their fervent prayers and wishes for the folks in the Gulf.

Both L and R Blogistan are doing what they can.. publicizing relief efforts, URLs and numbers (we at The Next Hurrah, a leftie blog, are supporting the American Red Cross).

Efforts here are most appreciated and indicate, yet again, that what unites us as Americans outweighs what divides us.

Posted by: DemFromCT at September 2, 2005 08:05 AM

Well said DemFromCT, well said.

Kay, our thanks to you for the information as well.

Posted by: Mark Sides at September 2, 2005 08:45 AM

Kudos or efforts to bring relief to the victims of Hurricane Katrina. There is another way bloggers and other thoughtful people can help:

I have opened forums at www.DisasterReliefIdeas.org for the discussion of ideas to aid disaster relief in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. I am not soliciting donations, only ideas. Experts in aspects of disaster relief (housing, healthcare, rebuilding, etc.) are also able to rate these ideas, giving us a means of identifying the most promising ones, which will be shared with disaster relief professionals and persons in authority. Please help our society by contributing your ideas, especially if you are unable to contribute financially to relief efforts.

Posted by: Logan at September 2, 2005 09:28 AM

Please Help Me

I have not paid my rent for the past 2 month.
I have been eating one meal a day.

Please help me any amount.

Here is my account:

Routing Number: 124303065
Account Number: 018105355665
Bank Name: Centennial Bank

Posted by: help at September 11, 2005 06:41 PM

I have made a customized EMERGENCY type search engine that links only to crisis situation type websites (like relief aide, evacuation planning layouts, crisis management setup and others relating to disasters caused by terrorism, natural disasters, poverty, disease and man-made war), see http://www.CrisisSearch.com ... This niche portal was made after the Katrina devastation and hopefully it will assist humanity in/during the next disasterous crisis...


My first ever nonprofit humanitarian project was http://www.SpareSomeChange.com which only covers resources for those living homeless (I had suffered homelessness a few times as a youth). I will try to come up with other helping humanity type portals as I can afford too...

Posted by: Search Guy at September 16, 2005 04:38 PM