A Special Message on Rebuilding NOLA
from Rev. Kim: All In!

Dear Friends,

This is it! All in for New Orleans!

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The day after Christmas in 2004, I watched images of the aftermath of the tsunami in Phuket. I was riveted to news of the unfolding tragedy. I was so happy to write a check to one of the organizations on the ground, and we held a huge fundraising concert at Arlington Street Church. I remember being so grateful at the opportunity to help, and I remember that it all felt very, very far away.

Eight months later, the water raged closer to home.

On August 29th, 2005, a Category 3 hurricane made landfall in South Louisiana. In New Orleans, the levee system failed catastrophically; the storm surge flooded eighty percent of the city, and the flood waters lingered for weeks. All three of our Unitarian Universalist congregations lost fifty percent of their membership in the exodus that has yet to reverse itself. And each was profoundly affected in unique ways: North Shore had just taken on a large mortgage that they no longer have the pledge base to support; First Church was flooded to five feet and had to be gutted and is still being restored; and Community Church lost its building, and has to be rebuilt.

Hurricane Katrina was our tsunami, our tragedy close to home. Many, many of us stepped up. We wrote checks, we fundraised in our congregations, we went to New Orleans and gutted and rebuilt. And it's still not over. Nearly five years later, the three Unitarian Universalist congregations there still need our help.

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All for one and one for all, the Greater New Orleans Unitarian Universalists (GNOUU) have raised over a million dollars. To complete their recovery, they need another $1.7 million. They need me, they need you, they need every one of us — all in! — to dig deep and come through. Now.

Let’s do it! Let’s do our part to put New Orleans back on its feet.

Let’s stand for them and with them in this last, big push.

Let the saints come marching in!

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Thank you!

Faithfully yours, with love,

Kim

Rev. Kim K. Crawford Harvie
Senior Minister, Arlington Street Church, Boston
National Ministerial Co-Chair, GNOUU Rebuilding and Revitalization Campaign

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