[Steve Noblett is the Executive Director of the Christian Community Health Fellowship in Memphis, TN. This article is posted with permission from the CCHF website.] In 2005, New Orleans took a direct hit from a category 3 hurricane. For over 100 miles both sides of I-55 were jammed with folks
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Yesterday afternoon as I was collecting my thoughts for this devotional, CNN reported that 70% of COVID-19 fatalities in Louisiana are African Americans, even though African Americans comprise only 32% of the State’s population. Governor Edwards observed that most of the fatalities have involved persons with multiple co-morbidities. In other
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The New Orleans Baptist Association (NOBA) is pleased to announce that the Reverend Shawn Powers has accepted the post of CEO of Baptist Community Health Services (BCHS). BCHS is the New Orleans based medical mission that was launched post-Katrina by the churches of NOBA and the North American Mission Board.
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Baptist Community Health Services is open and operational in the newly built Sanchez Center in the Lower 9th Ward. I got to visit the Sanchez Center on BCHS’s first day to see how things were going. Mrs. Carolyn Fountain was diligently working the front desk, welcoming patients. “It’s been
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And the one who was seated on the throne said, “See, I am making all things new” Revelation 21:5 Inertia is the tendency of matter to remain at rest if at rest, or, if moving, to keep moving in the same direction, unless affected by some outside force. Katrina changed
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A letter that became much more than a letter was crafted in a jail cell 52 years ago this April. Now known as the “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” this document by Martin Luther King Jr. became a catalyzing force in the civil rights movement.
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