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Hurricane Katrina Relief Effort Video Footage

With Hurrican Ike leering on the coast of Texas I am reminded of Hurricane Katrina. I wrote in another post how Katrina not only changed the people’s lives who were effected by the hurricane, but it changed my life as well. Here is video footage from 2 of our 4 Relief Trips that our church took in the days and weeks after Katrina. Please note, this first video is 18 minutes long, but was used as a sermon filler to show the church members what people in that area was facing and how we needed resources and assistance as our church was going to adopt a neighborhood called Eagle Pointe. There is a lot of footage of the damage to homes and property as well as some personal interviews by some of the residents of the community we adopted. It has some rough spots that are very shaky, but I had to use the video available to me. This was the first video I had ever edited and made into a movie, so bear with it, it is worth the watch.

Our church was one of the first relief assistance teams on the scene. A couple of days after Katrina hit Biloxi, MS we loaded an RV up with water and as much food as possible, and 6 of us went to offer whatever help we could offer, this is what we saw and what we heard from some of the people…

Update: You may have to hit play and then pause to let it load some, the file is big.
Can’t see the video? CLICK HERE

This video footage is from trip #2 of our adoption of the Eagle Point Community. We were larger than the Red Cross; we had over 40 volunteers, two half-ton trucks, a semi-truck, two RV’s and a 15 passenger van full of volunteers and supplies for the people of Biloxi. We provided them with basic necessities and a hot meal. The first video literally took me all night to create. The next morning several local news agencies used it for their local news stories, one used it to partner with us with a program called, “A Time to Care” along with the US Army. A service rep with Purpose Driven, who happened to be in Rick Warren’s small group got the first video in his hands, he showed it to his executive leadership team, and they donated our remaining Purpose Driven Life Books to the relief effort, and credited our account for the entire balance (very cool!). We handed the books out to everyone as well as Bibles. With no power it is a perfect opportunity for people to read, and as the church lived out the Gospel, many people were interested in what God had to say to them through His Word.  I never knew that video would make it so far around the nation. Video 2 was made possible because of video 1.


Can’t see the video? CLICK HERE

This was truly living out the Gospel.

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What’d You Do?

This is one of my favorite movie scenes of all times…

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I thought about it as I was watching this prank video…

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Join the Conversation: What’s the funnies thing you “Accidentally” did but tried to cover up…or What’s the funniest thing you saw happen to someone that they tried to play off or cover up?

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Have You Forgotten?

My prayers go out today to the family members of the victims of the tragic attacks that took place on September 11, 2001 in New York City, Washington D.C., and Pennsylvania. As well, my thoughts and prayers go out to our soldiers overseas who are daily risking their lives and making sacrifices to prevent such an attack from happening to our country again.

I will never forget that day as long as I live. It is amazing that 7 years have passed by already. I was at the office where I worked on the phone with a vendor placing an order for a client when the salesman on the phone paused and told me that a plane just flew into the World Trade Center. We finished our conversation and I went upstairs to my bosses office where we turned on a TV in the conference room and watched the rest of the attacks unfold within the next several minutes. I will never be able to explain the tragic loss I felt that day as I watched my country attacked by a foriegn enemy.

Join the Conversation: Have you forgotten? Where were you when you heard about the attacks on 9/11?

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Finally!!!

We should have bought one of these 6 weeks ago:

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Yeah watching a baby sleep in a swing is not that exciting, but when you have a baby who has colic, it is heaven on earth!!! Hailey has not fully adjusted to the swing, but she is getting there, we’ve only had it for one day.

Funny how priorities change in life. I would have rather had these:


For the same price as the swing, but I am happy to settle with the swing for Hailey, I am sure it will payoff big time over the next several months, as apparently it helps colicky babies to be moving.

Join the Conversation: What tricks have you had to learn with raising your children? (Animals can be included in this conversation! 🙂 )

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Yeah Jordin Sparks!!!

Saw this article on Fox News last night:

LOS ANGELES —  Sunday night’s MTV Video Music Award host Russell Brand took several digs at young stars wearing “purity rings” to pledge their virginity until marriage — and “American Idol” winner Jordin Sparks wasn’t having any of it.

Brand’s running theme for the evening centered on the Jonas Brothers and their rings — until Sparks stepped on stage to have her say about his constant remarks.

“Not everyone wants to be a slut,” Sparks spat back, the auditorium filling with applause. Sparks, Miley Cyrus and Selena Gomez are also among the young stars who have vowed to remain chaste.

Sparks told Pop Tarts later at the In Touch magazine after-party that she was more than happy to put Brand — known as Britain’s ultimate playboy — in his place.

“Somebody had to do it,” she said.

Word is, Russell Brand, not only was highly sexual in his jokes and conversations at the VMA’s, but he decided to give his opinion on our political situation here in America as well. It is obvious that as he decided to attack the Jonas Brothers and Sarah Palin’s soon to be son-in-law, the crows quickly lost interest. Russell had huge applause when he gave his endorsement of Obama courtesy of the UK, but became very unpopular, almost to dead silence with his vial attacks. Check the video out below for yourself.

UPDATE: I could not embed the video, so CLICK HERE to see it!

UPDATE #2: Here is the video response for Jordin Sparks (CLICK HERE)…they cut it short & cut the applause out. Thanks Chuck for requesting the video…I apologize for my lazy blogging 🙂

While your at it, Join the Conversation, Did you watch the VMA’s? If not, watch the video, and then tell me what you think. I think its exciting to see some mainstream, popular artist stand up for purity!