Spring Break Plans.

Starting to make Spring Break plans yet?

This family has.  And it’s not what you’d expect.

Neil & Anne Batie and their great family attend GCC-Elkhart.  Anne connected with me last weekend after a service to share what their family is doing over spring break to help families in New Orleans.  Here’s the email she sent yesterday:

Spring break is getting closer and we have big plans!  Neil, Anne, Katie, Nicole and Christian are going to New Orleans with Youth For Christ.  The victims of Hurricane Katrina are now in their fifth year of recovery.  More than 80,000 families are still living in temporary housing, FEMA trailers, or community shelters.  Michiana Chain Reaction and Youth For Christ have partnered together with Urban Impact Ministries to send a team of volunteers, which we are part of, to New Orleans during Spring Break 2010 to help rebuild homes and lives in southeastern Louisiana.  Please join us in donating to help fund this outreach, it will cost each team member $400.00.

You can mail a check to
Youth For Christ
174 State St
Elkhart, IN 46515

Please put Batie New Orleans in the memo. Youth For Christ will send a tax receipt to anyone who donates no matter what the amount is.

Can you help the Batie family in this effort?  Do it.  They’re giving up spring break to do this – let’s help make it happen.