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relief efforts
OB Joins
with Relief Agencies to Assist Katrina Victims
By Paul Strand
Washington Sr. Correspondent
CBN.com –
JACKSON, Mississippi - Operation Blessing is partnering right
now with other major relief agencies to bring more than 300,000
meals a day to Hurricane Katrina's victims.
While people were scattering before Katrina's threat Sunday evening,
relief experts in Jackson, Mississippi plotted into the night
how to fight back.
Salvation Army and Operation Blessing have come together to work
out emergency preparations for three states that are likely to
get hit the hardest by Katrina.
Hundreds of disaster professionals and volunteers will flair
out across Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, with Operation
Blessing's Director of Logistics, Steve O'Grady, right in the
middle of the action.
O'Grady remarked, “The magnitude of working four hurricanes
back to back to back last year was absolutely incredible, but
to see something this big as Hurricane Katrina coming in, and
just knowing the devastation most likely to occur when it hits
the New Orleans area, is just phenomenal. I haven't experienced
anything like this before.”
Partnering with the Salvation Army, Southern Baptists, and others,
Operation Blessing is ready to help support the feeding efforts
by helping provide 310,000 meals on a daily basis.
Major Roy Johnson says that Katrina looks to be as bad as 1969's
killer, Hurricane Camille. But as the Salvation Army and Operation
Blessing set up feeding centers in the aftermath, they will feed
spirits as well as bodies.
“There will be ordained ministers in many of our canteens
who will travel with the canteen and do visitation, and help pray
with people at their point of need, and even counsel,” Johnson
said.
And wherever the need is the greatest and the disaster the most
cataclysmic, the familiar red trucks of Operation Blessing will
soon be rolling in.
Warehousing becomes an issue in a lot of crisis situations, especially
refrigerated warehousing. Operation Blessing has 55 refrigerated
trailers; they will make a subset of them available for just refrigerated
storage capacity, as well.
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