Below photos are of the 1st house we have volunteers putting sheetrock back in. The group that is here from Texas is doing this today.

Photo below is one of the church leaders house here at LaPlace Church of Christ. It is almost ready to have insultation and sheetrock re-installed.

Photo is Worship service today at LaPlace CoC. We had groups here from Harding and LSU at Worship than out to work. Two groups from Texas coming this week one tonight and one tomorrow. They will be installing insulation and sheetrock in houses that are ready.

Funds Needed - Hurricane Isaac - LaPlace, LA

By the first part of next week we will have several houses that will be ready to have insulation and sheetrock installed. We have two groups coming from Texas, one arrives Sunday night and the other Monday afternoon. Both of these groups will be installing insulation and sheetrock. We need your help FUNDS have been very slow in coming in.

Students here from Harding to help with cleanup and repair

Tonight around 1:30AM the group from Harding will be arriving. They will work Friday, Saturday and 1/2 day Sunday after Church. They will be coming each weekend for the next 10 or 12 weeks. Thanks so much to these college kids and their leaders.

Disaster Assistance-LaPlace, LA

Staggering numbers, below is the number of families that needed help that dosn't normally receive help. Thousands Receive D-SNAP Assistance in St. John the Baptist Parish A total of 8,342 households in St. John the Baptist Parish received DSNAP food assistance from the DCFS. DSNAP is an income eligibility based program to assist eligible households who do not receive regular SNAP benefits and who need help buying groceries due to lost income or damages following a disaster. Eligibility was determined by federal guidelines based on an individual's known or expected income, resources (such as cash on hand, saving and checking account balances) and unreimbursed disaster expenses during the disaster period of August 26 and September 24.

Volunteers and Funds needed for Disaster Assistance in LaPlace, LA

Much going on here. 301 meals today, signed up more homes to be gutted. We have found an area where the houses haven't been touched yet so the mold is expanding quickly. Most of these families did not have flood insurance. We are now working in conjunction with the town, FEMA and AmericaCorps. The two main things needed right now are volunteers and FUNDS.

Lots going on here in LaPlace, LA. We have served over 12,000 meals and gutted 23 houses. Today I talked with officials from St. John The Baptist Parish(LaPlace), FEMA and met with AmeriCorps St. Louis group. We are all going to work together on the long term recovery efforts. The estimated number of homes affected is somewhere between 6,000 – 8,000. The building next door to the church here is where the old Walmart used to be. It is now going to be the main warehouse to store supplies that are donated to the town and then hauled out to the other distribution locations. If anything comes in that we can use or hand out they can bring us a pallet over with forklift. They also have cots to sleep 200+ volunteers. Needless to say there is lots of work to be done here and we are expecting to be here for a long time. We need volunteers of all types (helpers or skilled laborers). We need your help with FUNDS to be able to tackle this massive job ahead of us. Donation information to the right. "For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, ..." Matt. 25:35 We can continue to do this work of feeding hungry people whose lives have been devastated by disasters only with the financial support of our brothers and sisters across the U.S. Please pray for the thousands of people whose lives have been forever changed and for us as we show the love of the Lord to them by just providing a simple meal and supplies or helping rebuild.

We served 551 meals today. That brings our total meals served to over 12,000 in just 16 days.

Good day today 991 meals served, unloaded several loads of water and had group from Harding out gutting house. To date we have served 11,735 meals and helped with 23 houses. We want to help families with getting sheetrock and carpet back in there houses but we need FUNDS to do this.

We Need Your Help

469 meals served today that included breakfast and dinner for volunteers. 21 homes have been worked on by our volunteers to date. Once the houses have been gutted and have dried out we want to help with installing the new sheetrock to do this we need your help with funds to purchase necessary supplies to do this.

Today we served 544 meals and have volunteers out gutting houses. Volunteers here today from Ks, Ky, TX, Smithville CoC, MS and South Side CoC in Baton Rouge.

Disaster Assistance Mission - LaPlace, LA

We have a good group of volunteers here today to help gutt one of the damaged houses.

Hurricane Isaac Donations and Volunteers Needed at LaPlace, LA

614 meals served today. Volunteers out working on houses. New work orders still coming in. Just let me know if you want to help.

LaPlace, LA - Hurricane Isaac Update

We served 473 meals today and surveyed some of the houses that we have work orders for to make sure we know what they need. Tomorrow we have 15-20 volunteers that will be here to help. We need many more.

Please check out our facebook page for many more photos and updates it is listed under disasterassistance@gmail.com

Great day today

Haven't finished totaling the meal count for today but it is around 1400. We also worked on 4 families homes. There were between 40 & 50 volunteers here working today. I also received a phone call from Pearlington Church of Christ in MS. They asked if we could help them they can't get any help. If anyone would like to go there please let me know. We signed up another 25 families that need help with cleanup up their homes today. Please pass this along to your friends we need volunteers and funds to keep this mission work going. The photo below was taken by Trae Durden, while he was working with his college group from Tuscaloosa, AL here today.

Disaster Assistance LaPlace, LA

883 meals today, homes cleaned, met with church from FL that wants to help, met with another group from AR that wants to help and group from AL will arrive between 10 and midnight tonight. Tomorrow looks to be a very busy day hopefully we will have a large amount of volunteers.

Transformed by the Word By Brian Kirby

Disaster Assistance Work in LaPlace… As you know, the relief group Disaster Assistance CoC from Lake Jackson, TX has been in LaPlace, LA for several days now conducting relief efforts after the flooding that took place in that community due to Hurricane Isaac. This organization, supported by the churches of Christ and overseen by the church in Lake Jackson, TX, has been across the United States helping communities recover from various disasters over the years – including here at Goodwood during Hurricane Gustav. Mike Baumgartner with Disaster Assistance has informed me that they will likely be in LaPlace for several months as they continue to assist with the relief and recover efforts there. As of the writing of this article, Disaster Assistance has served 3904 meals, distributed a semi-trailer load of supplies from Disaster Relief (Nashville, TN), helped several families clear out their flooded homes. They have also set up 25 air mattresses and obtained a mobile shower facility for any volunteers who wish to come and help. There are also several coordinated efforts in the works at this point to have volunteers from all over the southeast United States to come and help out with the relief efforts. Mike has also let me know that there is still a great need for volunteers in the effort. If you, or a group of you all, are interested in helping out with the relief effort, visit the Disaster Assistance web site at http://www.disasterassistancecoc.com/ for information on volunteering OR you can contact me (Bryan) at the church office. If you want to know what kind of supplies they need, visit the “Items Needed” page on their website OR you can donate cash (which is always useful) through the church or on their website. As we look at the efforts that are going on all over south Louisiana, let’s keep a few passages from the New Testament in mind. “Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.” (1 John 4:7-8 ESV) “What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. (James 2:14-17 ESV) And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith. (Galatians 6:9-10 ESV)

GREAT NEWS

Photo below is a shower trailer just delivered tonight here at the church. We now have 4 showers for ladys and 3 for men. Now there is no excuse for anyone not to come and help. You can sleep in the church and have a nice hot shower.

Busy-Busy Day Today

We served 958 meals and handed out almost all of the semi load of supplies from Disaster Relief, Photo below shows people in line for Disaster Assistance meals and Disaster Relief supplies.

Hurricane Isaac-Laplace, LA

The days just keep getting bigger. Today we did 1132 meals and helped two families clean out there flooded houses

Hurricane Isaac-Laplace, LA

Lots going on today. We did 649 meals. Filled out many more work orders. We had volunteers here today from Hickory Knoll CoC. Tomorrow volunteers that I know of will be from Goodwood CoC, Zachary CoC and Hickory Knoll. Union CoC here on Tuesday. We also packed many bags of groceries for hand out tomorrow.

-Disaster Assistance Mission-Hurricane Isaac-Laplace, LA

Really busy day today we did 501 meals, signed up 10 families that need help and Don had 2 bible studies. We need your help donation information on the right.