Katrina

As the details of this tragedy continue to unfold, I am overwhelmed with grief and inadequacy of personal response. What do you do? This is the kind of thing that makes man (any man) and mankind feel small and helpless in a larger world. It is also the kind of thing that makes you ponder "what is God up to anyway?"

A very dear friend of mine, John Boudreaux is the Campus Director at LSU. Here is a part of letter from his lovely Stephanie describing their response to these events.
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We were only without power a day and other than our kids not feeling too well...team boudreaux is doing very good!!
The staff met yesterday to talk, assess the situation, bring ideas together and decide where to hop in. We are encouraging our staff and students to go volunteer at the shelters around the area. A lot of students aren't here because they went home when school was cancelled (until next Tuesday)...but we are mobilizing them and asking them to join us in serving here in BR at our meeting which is next Wed....pray that they will be willing and ready to serve with us.

John has been to the shelter on campus every day...he says it is overwhelming but he LOVES it. We had an elderly man and his daughter (ages 80ish and 60ish) spend the night with us last night...The O'Neils...very sweet, wonderful people...heart broken because they have lived forever in New Orleans and think their house is washed away. God in His sovereignty saved their car and they left today to travel to Mississippi to stay with their family. It is soooo heartbreaking...so many of these people have no where to go. The need is overwhelming. When I called John, he was running the registration table today at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center (fondly referred to as the PMac...the basketball arena)...give that man a place to be for a few days and he starts leading the whole sha-bang on day 3!!?? He loves to serve...I am so glad God gave me him!!!

Slap me if I ever complain about my house, what food I have to eat or what clothes I have to wear...I have a house...that is enough reason for rejoicing not to mention all the food and clothes that are at my fingertips everyday!!

Pray for continued guidance as we seek to engage with the helpless in our city. Pray that God would show us our place and how he can best use us and Campus Crusade as a whole. It has been great for John to be there with the people because he is figuring out what they need the most...hopefully it will help in making the game plan for the next few months.
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God bless John and Stephanie!