Still Missing
I was reading this article while I was doing some research on the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (someday I would love to work for them) and I came across this article discussing the number of children who are still repoerted as missing from Hurricane Katrina. We are all getting back to normal life, but is of the utmost importance that we don't forget that for many people the wondering and pain is not over.
"The NCMEC registered 4,828 Katrina children in the weeks following the hurricane, and has resolved 73 percent of those cases. As of Nov. 8, however, 1,286 children had yet to be united with loved ones. Sixty-three and a half percent were listed as black in the registry. That is consistent with the 2000 New Orleans census figures of 67 percent black.... Some of the missing children may be among the dead and yet to be identified because of the decomposition of water-logged bodies....Another disturbing possibility is that some children could have been kidnapped. "There were 4,000 sex offenders evacuated along with the children," O'Brien said. These sex offenders have not yet registered their whereabouts as required by law in most states. However, so far there have been no cases of sex offenders found with missing children."
http://www.alternet.org/wiretap/28379/
I was reading this article while I was doing some research on the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (someday I would love to work for them) and I came across this article discussing the number of children who are still repoerted as missing from Hurricane Katrina. We are all getting back to normal life, but is of the utmost importance that we don't forget that for many people the wondering and pain is not over.
"The NCMEC registered 4,828 Katrina children in the weeks following the hurricane, and has resolved 73 percent of those cases. As of Nov. 8, however, 1,286 children had yet to be united with loved ones. Sixty-three and a half percent were listed as black in the registry. That is consistent with the 2000 New Orleans census figures of 67 percent black.... Some of the missing children may be among the dead and yet to be identified because of the decomposition of water-logged bodies....Another disturbing possibility is that some children could have been kidnapped. "There were 4,000 sex offenders evacuated along with the children," O'Brien said. These sex offenders have not yet registered their whereabouts as required by law in most states. However, so far there have been no cases of sex offenders found with missing children."
http://www.alternet.org/wiretap/28379/
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I often hear that writing down everything that you enjoy, you can discern how best to serve the Lord like leading others in worship or teaching. We should find joy when we serve God, Peter even demands it. I have often thought that we also could do the same thing but with a list of things that sickens you or things that make you sad. Then serve the Lord by taking an offensive position. The gates of hades will not stand. This places evil on the side that it should be on, a defensive one. Just a random thought that I may have gleaned from someone else.
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