This is the fifty-fifth 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.

The following is another message from Pastor Sprague concerning the ministry of Trinity Evangelical Free Church of Covington, LA and hurricane relief.

Death of the Church is Greatly Exaggerated

Those of you who know me well know that I am a reader. Over the years, I have profited from and enjoyed the writings of Christian pollster, George Barna. He has brought a great body of research and insight to the body of Christ. This is not true, I believe, in his latest work entitled, Revolution.

In his new bestseller, he expresses great passion for the capital "C" church, the universal group of believers in Jesus, but misses completely the biblical doctrine of ecclesiology or practically put, the vital importance (Read the rest of the story below the fold...)