Myth Shattered?

Sometimes those of us who work with the children at the Center in New Orleans think that the children who are fortunate enough to get away from New Orleans will be alright, will make it somehow. Today that belief, maybe even a myth, was shattered. Desiree Davis, one of the girls who came to the Center before Katrina, was shot and killed in Oakland this week. The details of the crime read much like the murders in New Orleans read. I had not seen her since a few months before Katrina, but none of us have really forgotten those who never came back to New Orleans. The last we had heard she was doing good in California, finishing school, staying out of trouble. Life is short and our cities are violent. The gospel needs to be spread in our cities and to the youth in our cities.