This is the sixty-second 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.

We have another e-mail update from Pastor Sprague about the minstry of Trinity Church in the North Shore and New Orleans.

"The Jesus Movement

Lately, I have been asking questions of the early church that might radically influence the Jesus movement today.

1. How did an obscure, marginalized Jesus movement become the dominant faith of the western world in just a few centuries?
2. How did Christ-followers convince people they weren't vagabonds, gypsies or involved in a cult?
3. How did the Christian community in the first century go from being one, one-zillionth of the population to 56% of the Roman Empire? That is a growth rate of 40% per decade!
4. How did they grow so rapidly with no (Read the rest of the story below the fold...)