Hurricane Katrina was a divine sobriety.  It was an historic event of both deep tragedy and unexpected renewal as a much needed perspective shift turned our hearts to those who could not help themselves.

Through our disaster relief work, we discovered an invigorated empathy that elevated us to a level of continued compassion that doesn’t stop at the point of one completed project.  Instead, it bleeds into every aspect of ongoing mercy ministry and community restoration.

Born out of the aftermath, came a realization of just how easily we become desensitized to the needs of own backyards by playing a role in a modern-day Samaritan parable as we become the passerby who watches their suffering neighbor in the ditch, and yet thinks they have done well by not stopping.  We now understand how quickly we can become disconnected from the needy, and yet, now see just how interrelated we are to them. We also witnessed firsthand the overcomplicated, sluggish and inefficient ’system’ churn out more problems than it was supposed to solve.

In short, our hearts have been turned from partial sympathy to a full time commitment of immediate, hands-on benevolence ministry to the distressed, helpless and poor and those seeking to regain what they have lost.  As a result, Homeland Missions exists to provide prompt and enduring community relief to disadvantaged families and individuals.

This help is provided by you through us.  We are merely conduits of God’s grace used as willing vessels from suburbia’s grassy edges to the deep concrete curbs of the city.

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