see also our History Page.
see also the news item:
 "Rebuilding after Katrina"

Coast Family Association, formerly Gulf Coast AFA, has always been here and never ceased to exist.  We began in 1993 and have gone through several growth and down cycles.  One big down cycle began in 2003 and in August of 2005 we where hit head-on by Hurricane Katrina destroying our office and devastating our supporters.  Now that we are further along in the post-Katrina recovery, we are hoping our past supporters and the Coast are ready to re-engage in the work.

Since we are a volunteer-based organization, our activities change based upon the strength and participation of volunteers and our leadership.

From 2000 to 2002 a series of very serious events directly effected our leadership, among which were several deaths of close family members.  In addition, AFA national started to scale back their level of support to AFA affiliate groups around the nation.  Because of all of these events taken together, by 2003 Gulf Coast AFA's county groups had either stopped or significantly scaled back activities.

From 2003 to 2005, a period of quiet attempts to rebuild continued up until  Hurricane Katrina hit us.  Katrina destroyed (photo right) the Gulf Coast AFA office and the Conservative Christian Library that we hosted.  Katrina required all of our supporters to focus elsewhere, and rightly so.  Many of us, once we were able to get back on our feet, continued to help others in doing the same.  Over the post-Katrina years attempts to gather support continued to fail due to many supporters still being personally devastated, focused on relief efforts, and/or some still being scattered around the country.  Okay... don't be so sad...  With God there is always reason to be optimistic!

In 2004, our President, David Rogers, began work on a new Pro-Life strategy never tried before, a state Personhood Amendment (aka Human Life Amendment).  Personhood is now a dynamic growing movement within the Pro-Life community.  It seeks to establish a state constitutional definition of a person that includes unborn children, thus making killing an unborn child a crime punishable under existing murder laws.   Because Dave's early work laid the foundation, Pro-Life Dave is considered the founding father of the Personhood Movement.

Work on the first ever state Personhood Amendment in U.S. History was finalized in August of 2005.  Its introduction and official filing was put off until Nov. 1st because of a direct hit by Hurricane Katrina.  See Dave's Katrina Story.  The official filing letter and its introducing contains the "Declaration for the Unborn" which you can read here.    The proposed constitutional amendment is called the "Ultimate Human Life Amendment" was first introduced in Mississippi as a Constitutional Initiative 22, then re-introduced in 2007 as Initiative 23, and now in 2009 as People's Initiative 24.