PLEASE READ: we want to hear from you!

We are ready to move forward with our plans to start rebuilding our homes and our families. In order to do that we need to hear from two groups of people: (1) our congregation and (2) churches that want to help.

If you are a member of our congregation...
We want to know your situation. Please let us know what kind of damage you have sustained to your house. Let us know where your family is at....what other needs you have...what your job situation is. We want to provide as much support as possible for you. People are opening their arms and want to help. Let them.

Also, let us know if there is anyone you know who is in need right now. We want to take this opportunity to reach out to our community...and the best place to start is your friends, relatives, co-workers, neighbors, etc. This is perhaps an opportunity like none we have ever encountered to reach out and show the love of Christ.

Please email Doug or call him on his cell: 504-975-7570. We want to hear from every family at Berean. Please pass this info along to anyone you are currently in contact with. We want to hear from you within a week if possible.

If you are a church or individual that wants to help...
As we have shared, there are three ways you can help: (1) by providing finanical support, (2) by providing supplies, and/or (3) by providing work teams. Our focus is on rebuilding homes. Most work teams will be laying carpet, floating sheetrock, patching roofs, cutting up large tree limbs, etc. BUT we understand that every church has a little bit of a different personality and passion. We want to work with you...and we are open to anything at this point...so let us know what you are thinking and we will see what we can do.

We are ready to accept work teams as early as next week.

Our goal at this point is to gather some basic information on your work groups so that we can schedule accomdations. We want to know when you want to come...what kind of work you want to do...approximately how big your group will be. Once we have this information, we can begin to access our needs and let you know prior to your arrival exactly what projects we anticipate you doing and what families we anticipate you helping.

Please follow the below links to letters and forms that you will need in order to plan your trip:

Letter for Work Team Leaders

Work Team Information Form (.pdf format) or Work Team Information Form (.doc format)

Work Team Waiver Form

Please fill out the information form and return it to us ASAP. You can email the form to Doug or "snail mail" it to:

Doug Daspit
c/o Community Bible Church
8354 Jefferson Hwy
Baton Rouge, LA 70809

Additionally, if you need more specifics on our financial situation, please read this letter from our Senior Pastor, Brad Davis.

Oh, and special thanks to Keith Boyer from Faith Bible Church in Slidell, LA. We were able to use his information as a starting point for all of the above letters and forms. We are all trying to figure this out together!

Thank you all so much. I am genuinely excited right now. I firmly believe that God wants to heal New Orleans and make it a place like it has never been. Pray for revival in our city!

Doug