You know, that’s a real complex question and people have been arguing that question for a long time,

Then a young girl came out of one of these condemned buildings carrying an old doll, … And I realized she lived there. I was shocked that somebody could actually live in a place like...

It’s a hard thing to have a school with no home. For me, what could be a better scenario than to be able to serve kids from New Orleans and be back in my hometown?...

More than eight years ago, I walked off that turf at the Superdome with a national championship, … Now, as I look at the tattered dome, it symbolizes the devastation to my home, my city...

We saw our neighbor’s house on a photo, and it was up to roof with flooding. So we can only assume it’s the same for ours.

If anybody’s willing to schedule us, we’re willing to play.

I never would have guessed 15 years ago that anything like this could have happened. We were just hoping for a chance to play football and a chance to get a scholarship and go somewhere,...

One morning I woke up … it was 5:30 a.m. and I was just weeping for our city and for the people they haven’t found. I don’t know that I’ve been angry. I’ve been very...

We don’t have buses, we don’t have school books, we don’t have a lot of things. We’re looking to start a new school with nothing.

If using my name to get Desire Street in the door so people will listen is my God-given purpose, then so be it.

I wept this morning thinking about our city and thinking about the many families and children that probably drowned in their homes, so it’s incredibly sad. And yet somehow at the same time we’ve experienced...

We are finding them at shelters around the country.

Our ministry’s mission is to revitalize the Desire neighborhood. It was once ranked the worst neighborhood in the country. We may have an opportunity to rebuild it in the way everyone would want it to...

In particular, the Gator Nation is stepping forward in an incredible way. It’s just incredible to see the support from the Gator Nation. ?How can we help?’ Those are the biggest words I’ve heard in...

It’s been a great opportunity for us to continue working in the lives of these kids, especially with the intense trauma they’ve faced. It’s not been an easy year, there’s been a lot of difficult...

Romans 8:28, it says, ‘We know that all things work together for good.’ All things aren’t good, but all things can work together for good and part of my faith reminds me that this is...

We just relearned the difference between want and need. How much time do we spend saying, ‘We need this, we need this’ and get bent out of shape? Now we’ve got nothing, and yet we...

The Gator Nation is stepping forward in an incredible way. ‘How can we help?’ are the four biggest words I’ve heard in the last week.

I wept this morning thinking about our city. I was thinking about the families and children who drowned in their homes. It’s a sad thing but we see an opportunity to do a greater good...

We’ve got nothing, but we have everything we need. I’ve got my wife, my son. We’ve got food and shelter, and we feel fortunate to have that because many people don’t.

We don’t know what the damage is, per se. We don’t know if its salvageable or not. But while the building is damaged, our spirit is strong.

There are natural disasters, the worst part of humanity has come in the city in the aftermath, yet I believe in all that somehow God is doing things that inevitably will be good,

That’s currently all we own after we left.

Earlier in my life, I would’ve tried to bury my emotions. Now I wake up at 5 or 5:30 in the morning and find myself weeping for my city.

I guess I don’t want to get too much in detail. But I was just picturing in my mind and weeping with all the people that were left in the city and the experiences they...

It has been the craziest couple of weeks and that has been the driving issue was finding a place for our kids. The longer you wait, the staff starts . . . what are we...