Hurricane Katrina Fund
September 1, 2005
Dear Lasallians,

We will continue to post on our website updates on what we know of our Lasallian ministries, Brothers and partners in the New Orleans area as information becomes available. The devastation in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast is overwhelming. Almost no one in this area is unaffected and over a million people are either homeless or suffering terrible consequences of this storm. This also includes our Lasallians, Brothers and Partners, and our schools in the area.

We at the Conference office have been in contact with Brother Louis Welker, Visitor of New Orleans and Santa Fe over these past days. As you might imagine the Provincialate there has been overwhelmed not only with questions and statements of concern but also from relatives seeking news of Brothers and partners. In solidarity with our Lasallians in the New Orleans area and to help them, we have offered to handle whatever questions we can and to serve as a clearinghouse for those wanting to assist Lasallians and our ministries in distress.

Any donations that you wish to go to hurricane relief for those in the New Orleans and Santa Fe District can be channeled through us at:

Hurricane Fund
Christian Brothers Conference
4351 Garden City Drive
Suite 200
Landover, MD 20785-7225
301-459-9410


We ask all interested parties to make donations payable to “Christian Brothers Conference” with a memo line, or separate note, indicating that it is for the Hurricane Fund.

I urge all of our ministries to have special collections or its first mission collections for relief of our brothers and sisters victimized by this hurricane. There are many agencies such as Red Cross and Catholic Charities USA through whom you may donate. However, if you wish to show solidarity with our Lasallians in New Orleans, we will be sure that funds get to them.

We also ask that you contact us rather than the Provincialate in Lafayette with questions. This will lessen the burden on their staff.

Let all of us do what we can to help our brothers and sisters in this time of disaster.

Brother Thomas Johnson, FSC
Regional Coordinator
Christian Brothers Conference