We have established a Hurricane Katrina disaster relief fund for the Lake Pontchartrain North Shore. This includes the Covington, Abita Springs, Mandeville, and Slidell, Louisiana area, and all other surrounding small towns.

The fund will be administered by the Trinity Evangelical Free Church in Covington, Louisiana. The Church contact page is here.

If you wish to make a donation, please make checks payable to:

Trinity Evangelical Free Church

and mail to:

19380 N. 10th St.
Covington, LA 70433

Please mark the subject line with:

North Shore Disaster Relief Fund

This is a local Church on the North side of Lake Pontchartrain in an area that has not received much coverage in the national news. We have close ties with a staff member at this church and know they will be honest and fair in the distribution of any funds they receive. You may attempt to call the Church using their contact page linked above if you would like to help in some other manner. It is extremely difficult to even get through on the phone.

These people are devastated as many have lost their homes and businesses. They have no utilities, no income, or food. Water must be boiled or treated before it is drinkable. They don’t expect power to be restored for at least four to six weeks. It is very difficult to even make contact with the residents in the area.

We have chosen this as our way of helping those devastated by this terrible tragedy.

Others in the blogosphere have chosen national charities, and you can find a list of those at Instapundit. Hugh Hewitt quotes Col. Austen Bay with the following:

“There’s no America out there except America to respond to it. We’ve got to do it ourselves.”

And Winston Churchill with this:

“We have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.”

Please dig deep and give. Then give again. Then give until you really feel it.

We will update as the day progresses.

Update: 1:30 CDT

We have joined with The Truth Laid Bare Katrina Relief Page, to help in the effort of encouraging more donations. Please visit their contribution logging page to help us track donations to the various charities and amounts.

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