The Mission Katrina team left this morning for Slidell, Waveland, and other Louisiana areas hard-hit by Katrina. Since the return of the first Vision Forum relief, reconnaissance, and extraction team, Vision Forum men have literally been working around the clock to network with local pastors and state and local home school leaders to identify Christians and home school families in need of immediate assistance or relocation. More than fifty homes from strong Christian families have been identified for the purpose of temporary housing in the San Antonio and Alabama region.

The objective of today’s mission is to enter the areas most afflicted, like Slidell, and establish networks of communication with local leaders for relief and distribution purposes. In addition, the Vision Forum team is actually seeking to make face-to-face contact with specific families on our mailing list in the regions we are visiting for the purpose of offering them assistance. With more than five hundred families (identified by area code and address) in the affected region, we cannot hope to visit more than a fraction of our list, but will make efforts to show our solidarity with as many families and friends of Vision Forum as possible.

If a solid network is established through solid local Christian contacts, identified teams from different parts of the country will be scheduled to make successive drops of supplies and even offer human labor for clean-up purposes.