Forbes ran this on their website, “Katrina is old news, right? New Orleans – who cares? It’s just another big city with big problems, bad luck and bad weather. Get over it. Actually, please don’t. Don’t ever get over the tragedy of New Orleans. It’s your tragedy, too. What happened to this historic city two years ago is more than the obvious cautionary tale of what might befall your community after a natural disaster or a terrorist strike. It’s also a sad reflection of what’s happening now – today, in your hometown and across an anxious and ailing nation.

Inadequate health care. A housing crisis. Crumbling infrastructure. Racial division. Poor schools. Rising crime. And at the core of these and other problems threatening our way of life: a pernicious failure of leadership.

Katrina did more than claim lives and property. It ripped away the glitzy veneer that made New Orleans’ reputation and exposed a festering brew of problems lingering beneath – problems endemic to the rest of the nation, begging for attention, if we only had the guts to look.

If this country can’t help New Orleans rebound – if we and our leaders break the promises made to its citizens – what are the odds your health care will ever get cheaper? Your bridges safer? Your schools better?

“New Orleans is an incubator for all our nation’s ills,” said historian Douglas Brinkley, author of “The Great Deluge,” a book about Katrina.

“If you study what’s going on in New Orleans, it’s just an exaggerated version of what’s hitting us in many areas of the country,” he said. “Just pick your topic.”

We concur. All that is wrong with our America has been seen vividly in ten fold technicolor here in Louisiana as our wounded and crippled communities struggle to get back together. While many churches have dramatically reduced their relief efforts we are still ministering in any way that we can. We would like to invite all of you to come visit us here at Sovereign Grace Homeland Missions to experience what He has done and is doing in the Body.

We invite anyone who is interested in evangelism to come and meet the local people. We invite anyone who wants to help us feed and clothe those who come to our relief center to come and serve. We invite anyone who wants to rebuild to come and build. And anyone who would pray for us who cannot come, please pray.

We can accommodate up to 30 people at a time and have all the facilities you would need. Even if you are just a single person or a family or a couple we would love to have you visit and labor with us. If you would like to plan a group event us just email Laura at homeland@sgfellowship.org and we will arrange it. We are taking groups year round and have developed a special men’s week study/work series entitled “Leading as Men” that has proven to be a wonderful time of equipping men in the faith. Contact us for details – 985.643.8215