This Week's Program

This week's featured story

Surviving Katrina

“I just had a feeling inside this one was ours. I didn’t say it to nobody, I didn’t have no premonition. I just had that inside intestinal feeling that … it ain’t gonna be good. …. I just thinkin’, you know, we’re past due.” -- Wayne Ford

The people who live along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico today (2010) are facing massive losses to their lands and livelihoods due to the tragic oil spill. It’s hard to believe that just five years ago that coast line was hit by another tragedy – Hurricane Katrina. Hear one story of a man who lost it all and the work of Mennonite Disaster Service in the aftermath.

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My Turn

This week's My Turn author

Frog Hollow Journal

Sam Heatwole

Over the months that followed we began to understand that in the hollow, honesty and personal integrity were considered priceless assets. It was to be our first lesson: integrity is more important to our neighbors than anyone’s formal belief. Honest dealings give the most reliable evidence of the unseen God and his purpose for our lives.

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This Week's Resources

 
Online
 
Video
Building on Faith: Making Poverty Housing History
A Third Way Media documentary featuring Wayne Ford and others.

Book
Frog Hollow Journal, by James G.T. Fairfield
Read on today's program by Sam Heatwole

Related Resources

Video
Hurricane Katrina: The Storm that Drowned a City, A PBS NOVA Special Documentary
 
Books

Burton's Blog

Giving it all up

For many of us, I suppose, there are times in our lives when we need to make the big decision to leave behind the life we’ve known and begin a new life with an uncertain future. Moving from the place of one’s roots to a new location requires a certain willingness to let go and embrace the unknown. I certainly saw it in my father’s move from his own home to an extended care facility. Watching nearly everything he held dear as it was auctioned off to friends and strangers to prepare for the sale of his house was not easy. Refugees and immigrants face great unknowns, including often strange languages. Leaving home as a result of war action, I imagine, must be almost unbearable.
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Next Week

In honor of Father’s Day, we talk with a father who found himself caught in a web of alcohol addiction, until his children reached out to him in a final ultimatum. What would it be,  addiction or his family? 

Favorite Family Recipes

Asian Love Salad

If you’re looking for a great tasting and extremely creative side dish, then this is one to try out. It comes from our staff writer, Zachary, whose friend ordered it at a restaurant one day. Committed to re-creating the salad at home, after a number of attempts, she finally got this one down to perfection and passed it along to Zach.

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