remember them after Katrina?
check out their site here:
http://www.americanrainbowrapidresponse.org/Burma Relief Effort
May 10th, 2008 News, Volunteer Message Board
We have 7 semi trucks of food ready to deliver to Burma/ Myanmar.
In cooperation with
The Conscious Alliance
Christian Disaster response
ARRR
Whole Foods
Organic Valley
We are waiting on word about visa’s and things are patchy at the moment. However Dr. Ron (CDS) is on it talking with the Myanmar Government/ Military.
There should be more word over the next week. We have been informed we must accompany the food to it’s destination. See it delivered to those in need. And under no circumstances give it to any government.
We have the food, Thanks to Justin Baker, Conscious Alliance, and Whole Foods. Just for fun I have included the inventory list at the bottom.
I love all you guys, and have no idea if I am ready for this.
All I have to say this is all a result of your work, love and interest.
When the world looks at ARRR they see the blessing that was the New Waveland Cafe. And accept us, love us, and pray that we will continue to offer hope to them and those unfortunate people.
Please now more than ever, let us all drop all of our inhabitions, and get ready!
Register on the site, connect with us, tell your friends. We need all of you today !
Thank you all !
“Help on the way !”
Aaron Funk
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http://www.welcomehome.org/rema/media/latimes.htmlA Gospel and Granola Bond
Two radically different sets of volunteers arrived in post-Katrina Mississippi to feed the hungry, and their lives were changed forever.
By Elizabeth Mehren, Times Staff Writer
WAVELAND, Miss. — Days after Hurricane Katrina hit, they began cooking together in a grocery store parking lot: evangelical Christians from Texas and Rainbow Family flower children from all over.
Soon they were serving 1,000 free meals a day at their cafe housed in a domed tent. Side by side, members of this improbable alliance worked nonstop, helping the people of what was once a scenic beach town.
Gradually, barriers melted. The evangelicals overlooked the hippies' unusual attire, outlandish humor and persistent habit of hugging total strangers. The hippies nodded politely when the church people cited Scripture. The bonds formed at Waveland Village have surprised both groups.
"We are Methodists, Episcopalians and Baptists, along with various and sundry other Christian groups," said Fay Jones, an organizer of the Bastrop (Texas) Ministerial Alliance. "Did we ever think we would have such a wonderful relationship with hippies? No."
Brad Stone, an emergency medical technician from the Rainbow Family, called the Christian-hippie coalition his new community. He explained: "It has been unbelievable. We are all so close. I am actually dreading leaving."
But about three months after they got here, the Rainbow Family volunteers and the Texas church delegation are preparing to head home. They will serve a grand banquet on Thanksgiving Day — turkey with all the trimmings, which at the Waveland Village Cafe includes steamed seaweed. Over the holiday weekends they will hold a parade.
Then the church folks will hop in their pickup trucks and the hippies will climb into their psychedelic school buses. Both groups say they have been forever changed by the experience.
"They are as amazed as we are," said Pete Jones, who with his wife organized the ministerial group. "We have all learned so much."
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