The Old Man and the Storm – Hurricane Katrina documentary – Jan 6th on PBS

About a true hero of  Hurricane Katrina: Mr. Herbert Gettridge – airing January 6, 2009 and online. Six months after Hurricane Katrina slammed into New Orleans, producer June Cross came across 82-year-old Herbert Gettridge working alone on his home in the lower Ninth Ward, a neighborhood devastated when the levees broke in 2005. [...]

Relief arrives to hurricane-ravaged Haiti

Volunteers with OBI post eyewitness accounts from hurricane slammed Haiti after Ike Gustav …
OBI – Operation Blessings International is one of the organizations Project417 partnered with in New Orleans during Katrina. Our friend Jessica served with them this summer when they visited with Mr. Herbert Gettridge in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans. We [...]

Paris Hilton and Project417 – Unconfirmed Connections

Paris Hilton did not announce today her intentions to leave the USA and join the non-profit organization Project417 located in Toronto. The celebrity heiress, oft noted as being famous for being famous, is unlikely to confirm the unfounded rumors, first published on Facebook, that she would leave the media spotlight behind to join Project417 to [...]

An Improbable God

Does improbable mean impossible? Commentary on Richard Dawkins’ article, The Improbability of God.
In “The Improbability of God”, by Richard Dawkins [ http://www.positiveatheism.org/writ/dawkins3.htm ], he begins “…Much of what people do is done in the name of God. Irishmen blow each other up in his name. Arabs blow themselves up in his name. Imams and ayatollahs [...]

Nelson Mandela’s 90th Birthday – Calls for Rich to Help Poor

Nelson Mandela, the man who ended apartheid in South Africa, marked his 90th birthday, calling for the rich to do more for the poor. “If you are poor, you are not likely to live long,” he said at his house in the Eastern Cape. He said:”There are many rich people… who can share with those [...]

Reaction to Iran Missile Tests

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Peace through Total Disamament! …

Divine Appointment in Toronto

From the CSM Urban Update blog, the experiences of a student volunteer in Toronto. -
“I wanted to share who I had my divine appointment with – While we were at one of the ministry sites in Toronto that work with participants who are mentally challenged. I got the chance to spend some time with a [...]

Hoax Emails – Why o’ Why?

Hoax Emails and the “Christians” Who Send Them:
If you’re like me, your inbox fills up with all these supposedly well meaning spiritual emails forwarded to you by friends and family purportedly from Christian writers….
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Andy is a full-time inner city missionary and writes [...]