This is the forty-eighth update for the Hurricane Katrina disaster relief fund for the Lake Pontchartrain North Shore. This includes the Covington, Abita Springs, Mandeville, Slidell, and New Orleans, Louisiana.

Continuing on with Pastor Sprague’s weekly updates on the ministry of Trinity Evangelical Free Church of Covington, LA in hurricane relief.

“Morbid, yet beneficial…for me

“He is no fool to give up what he can not keep, to gain that which he can not lose.” Jim Elliot
“Only one life, will soon be passed, only what’s done for Christ will last.”
“What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his soul?”

I have a spiritual practice that I enter into annually on January 1 that propels me into the New Year. It is a bit morbid for some but it is beneficial for me. It is an exercise in counting (Read the rest of the story below the fold...)