The Gift of a Life

Just a thought concerning the plight on the Gulf coast. For those who are looking for more than just the opportunity to give money, who feel like they wish there was more that they could do, I wanted to let you know, there is one more thing you can do. The Southern Baptist Disaster relief agency, the North American Mission Board, will be taking volunteers down to the coast in about 12 weeks. That does fall right around the Thanksgiving-Christmas season, and would be the best Christmas/Thanksgiving gift many of the people down there could ever receive. I would imagine the Salvation Army would be taking volunteers as well, and perhaps even the Red Cross, and if you signed up now, you would perhaps have time to take an necessary training courses as well. I don't know about you, but I fully intend to head down there this November/December, because what's a week of vacation compared with the opportunity to help in such a personal and intimate way then helping people salvage, rebuild, and even just survive as efforts continue on the coast. For those interested, you can contact your locak Salvation Army office about volunteering here and the Southern Baptist Relief agency will post information about volunteering here as soon as it is available.

Technorati: flood aid; hurricane katrina