Stories tagged with: 2005-2007 hurricane katrina

• Trip to N. Orleans introduces Conn. students to faith in action

  by Marilyn Stewart, posted Tuesday, March 06, 2007 (17 years ago)

  U.S. Coast Guard cadets and Connecticut collegians pause for a photo during a missions trip to New Orleans that prompted some of the team’s non-Christians to rethink their view of Christianity.

  NEW ORLEANS (BP)--Unconventional mission trips to New Orleans have helped a number of U.S. Coast Guard cadets and college students from Connecticut see that many of the folks helping with hurricane recovery work on the Gulf Coast are Christians as opposed to secularists.

  “Our mission team was our mission trip,” said Randy Bond, director of the New London Collegiate Ministry in Connecticut who has taken four teams of Coast Guard cadets and students -– including non-Christians -- to his home state of Louisiana for volunteer work. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: The weekly New Orleans pastors’ meeting

  by Joe McKeever, posted Thursday, November 03, 2005 (18 years ago)

  NEW ORLEANS (BP)--Each Wednesday, pastors/ministers in the New Orleans area have been meeting at First Baptist Church of LaPlace for fellowship and information. Around 50 of us gather there each time, but it's never the same group. Read More

• Multi-week cleanup of flooded New Orleans Seminary begins

  by Keith Manuel, posted Wednesday, November 02, 2005 (18 years ago)

  Sorrowful stuff Outside campus housing at New Orleans Seminary, piles of left-behind items and debris underscore the heartache of Hurricane Katrina and the flooding it caused. Photo by Keith Manuel

  NEW ORLEANS (BP)--The first wave of volunteers in a major cleanup initiative at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary arrived Oct. 31, aiming to boost the campus to an even greater place of prominence in the city.

  The first project for the team of volunteers from Alabama and Mississippi was the removal of belongings left behind by students in their apartments and dorm rooms, said Bob Jackson, director of the seminary’s MissionLab program. Read More

• College’s journalism students boost post-Katrina morale

  by Karen L. Willoughby, posted Wednesday, October 26, 2005 (18 years ago)

  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--A photograph of a gate snapped in two by hurricane-force winds tells the story: William Carey College’s three campuses -– in Hattiesburg and Gulfport, Miss., and New Orleans -- will never again be the same. Read More

• Campus police chief leads worship for crews at seminary

  by Benjamin Hawkins, posted Monday, October 24, 2005 (18 years ago)

  Workers’ challenge With work crews facing moldy walls and ceilings in student housing at New Orleans Seminary, campus police chief Barry Busby is helping and ministering to the laborers who are cleaning up the campus. Photo by Jonathan Blair

  NEW ORLEANS (BP)--Decked out in his police uniform with a pistol at his hip, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary’s police chief, Barry Busby, does not look like a pastor. But he is.

        On Oct. 9, Busby gathered about 15 relief workers together in the seminary’s Martin Chapel for worship and Bible study. They called it the “Church in the Quad.” The next Sunday, attendance swelled to nearly two dozen in the original chapel at the seminary.

  Although spared from the effects of Hurricane Katrina, the chapel was without air conditioning, so the doors had to be propped open. Read More

• New Orleans-area church ready for next post-Katrina challenges

  by Sherri Brown, posted Monday, October 24, 2005 (18 years ago)

  BOUTTE, La. (BP)--The kitchen is closed. Read More

• New Orleans churches struggle to resume worship & ministry

  by Sherri Brown, posted Friday, October 21, 2005 (18 years ago)

  Back in church Becky Boykin and Renee Page greet each other at First Baptist Church in New Orleans during the first worship service since Hurricane Katrina. Photo by Sherri Brown

  NEW ORLEANS (BP)--They sang from a screen fueled by a borrowed generator. They hugged friends and waved to others across the sanctuary. And they asked the all-important post-hurricane question: “How did you do?”

        It was the first time that First Baptist Church -- significantly smaller in number but no less enthusiastic –- met for worship since Hurricane Katrina tore through New Orleans.

  Flooded flag Lakeview Baptist Church's Christian flag never turned over during the New Orleans floods, but it bears the marks of the waters. The New Orleans congregation lost everything to water and mold damage. Photo by Sherri Brown

        The church is built up enough so that the floodwaters stopped at its doorstep. But the church didn’t escape damage. Winds ripped away about a third of one building. Rain poured into Sunday School classrooms. Offices and church records were destroyed. Parts of the buildings that escaped damage soon showed signs of growing black mold. Weeks after the storm, there is still no electricity.

        “Everything around us stood in four to six feet of floodwater for weeks. The grass is dead, the trees are dying,” said David Crosby, pastor of First Baptist.

  But when the first worship service since Katrina was held Oct. 9, Crosby offered a prayer of thanks to “the God of storm and wind and rain.” First Baptist New Orleans will recover, but many other churches in the area may not. Read More

• Hondurans give $18,000 to Hispanic church hit by Katrina

  by Erin Curry, posted Friday, October 21, 2005 (18 years ago)

  METAIRIE, La. (BP)--Seven years ago, members of Good Shepherd Hispanic Baptist Church in Metairie, La., had compassion on fellow believers in Honduras hit hard by Hurricane Mitch. And now the favor is being returned many times over as Good Shepherd recovers from Hurricane Katrina.

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• Church went door-to-door to meet needs after Katrina

  by Staff, posted Friday, October 21, 2005 (18 years ago)

  MOBILE, Ala. (BP)--As thousands of volunteers descended upon the Gulf Coast region after Hurricane Katrina’s destructive winds and storm surge leveled entire communities, members of Dayspring Baptist Church in Mobile, Ala., decided the best way to help people start to recover was to walk house-to-house and knock on any doors that remained intact. Read More

• Volunteers sought for cleanup at New Orleans Seminary

  by Staff, posted Thursday, October 20, 2005 (18 years ago)

  Next steps New Orleans Seminary President Chuck Kelley consoles two students during the Oct. 5-8 move-out of the flood-damaged campus. Now a volunteer effort is being launched to restore the seminary’s on-campus housing. Photo by Sherri Brown

  NEW ORLEANS (BP)--New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary will launch a major volunteer cleanup initiative Oct. 31, giving Southern Baptists an opportunity to assist with the restoration and renewal of on-campus housing at NOBTS.

        Bob and Linda Jackson, new directors of the seminary’s MissionLab program, will coordinate the initiative which will involve scheduling 50 volunteers per week from Oct. 31 until the job is finished.

  “God has put before us a task too big for us, but not too big for Him,” Bob Jackson said. “Southern Baptists have an opportunity to come bring the message of love to the city of New Orleans.” Read More