Stories tagged with: joe mckeever

• KATRINA 2005-15: God's work during, after the storm

  by Marilyn Stewart/Louisiana Baptist Message, posted Monday, August 31, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  Baptist Press file photo

  NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- From the belly of a Coast Guard helicopter, Aviation Maintenance Technician 3rd Class Allan Campbell snapped photos of Edgewater Baptist Church days after levee breaks from Hurricane Katrina left 80 percent of New Orleans under water. The church steeple dangled on its side, its tip pointed downward into deep water.

  For Campbell, the devastation was personal. Two months earlier, he had walked his bride down the aisle on their wedding day and out through doors now submerged in water. Read More

• KATRINA 2005-15: The story is still being written

  by Joe McKeever, posted Friday, August 28, 2015 (9 years ago)

  NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- From the divine perspective, 10 years is a blip, one nanosecond in a timeless eternity. For us earthlings, it's one-eighth of a life expectancy.

  Even so, it's a convenient time to pull over and take inventory. Since Aug. 29, 2005, when Hurricane Katrina changed New Orleans forever, everyone wants to know: "What is God doing in this city? How are things now?" Read More