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Partnership builds houses and hope
December 5, 2009 – 5:56 pm | No Comment
Partnership builds houses and hope

Soon after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the Gulf Coast in 2005, damaging more than 200,000 homes and displacing more than one million people in Louisiana alone, Community Renewal International joined forces with The Fuller …

Sadness in Shreveport
July 14, 2009 – 6:08 pm | No Comment
Sadness in Shreveport

This last Sunday morning a bus carrying 23 members of Shreveport’s First Baptist Church, traveling to a church camp in Macon GA, crashed, killing one of the young people aboard and sending another 20 to …

Fuller lifted Shreveport to higher ground
February 15, 2009 – 9:49 pm | No Comment
Fuller lifted Shreveport to higher ground

The morning that I met Millard Fuller, when he came to Shreveport after Hurricane Katrina, he asked us to stand on our chairs and sing an old hymn, “Higher Ground.” There were about 20 of …

Building on Higher Ground
February 24, 2006 – 4:09 pm | No Comment
Building on Higher Ground

7-minute video of the Fuller Center for Housing house-building project for Katrina evacuees who have decided to make their home in Shreveport, Louisiana.