2005 Archives
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Katrina evacuees consider Baptist encampments a godsend
Posted: 9/16/05
A group of young people take a break from the stress of Hurricane Katrina with a game of volleyball at East Texas Baptist Encampment near Newton. Katrina evacuees consider
Baptist encampments a godsendBy John Hall
Texas Baptist Communications
NEWTON–When Hurricane Katrina neared New Orleans, Ella Robinson knew she had to leave. She loaded her car and drove west through wooded Louisiana for 18 straight hours. Fatigue set in after she crossed the border into Texas.
09/16/2005 - By John Rutledge
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Volunteers help displaced Louisianan contact his wife
Posted: 9/16/05
Ann Frances, a volunteer at the Baptist Child & Family Services special needs shelter at Churchill Baptist Church in San Antonio, celebrates with McKinnley Pittman just moments after he talked to his wife at a shelter in Baton Rogue, La. (Photo by Craig Bird) Volunteers help displaced
Louisianan contact his wifeBy Craig Bird
Baptist Child & Family Services
SAN ANTONIO–McKinnley Pittman lost all his phone numbers in the post-Katrina flood. For eight days, he didn't know if he also had lost his wife.
09/16/2005 - By John Rutledge
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After the Storm: Mississippi church finds reasons to give thanks
Posted: 9/16/05
Pastor Chuck Register of First Baptist Church, Gulfport, Miss., and his wife, Charlene, (both in foreground) worship with members of their church and other congregations in borrowed space. The Gulfport church buildings were completely destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. (Photo by Dee Ann Campbell/ABP) AFTER THE STORM:
Mississippi church finds reasons to give thanksBy Dee Ann Campbell
Associated Baptist Press
GULFPORT, Miss. (ABP)–Six days after Hurricane Katrina destroyed the sanctuary of First Baptist Church in Gulfport, Pastor Chuck Register told church members he wholeheartedly believed it is "the redemptive moment in history" for Mississippi's Gulf Coast.
09/16/2005 - By John Rutledge
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Four generations reunited at San Antonio shelter
Posted: 9/16/05
Three of Lawrence Green's grandchildren and one of his great-grandchildren play table games at the Churchill Baptist Church shelter operated by Baptist Child & Family Services. (Photos by Craig Bird) Four generations reunited at San Antonio shelter
By Craig Bird
Baptist Child & Family Services
SAN ANTONIO–When Hurricane Betsy hammered New Orleans 40 years ago, Marion Rosemary Green told her husband, Lawrence, she didn't think she could survive another experience like that. Sadly, her words proved prophetic.
09/16/2005 - By John Rutledge
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