Stories tagged with: katrina

• FIRST-PERSON: Two sisters

  by Curt Iles, posted Thursday, February 01, 2018 (6 years ago)

  Curt Iles tells the story of two sisters whose years-long estrangement was healed amid the hardship of hurricanes that struck Louisiana in 2005 -- "two bad sisters named Katrina and Rita." Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: Letter to pastors in the hurricane zones

  by Joe McKeever , posted Monday, September 11, 2017 (7 years ago)

  Reflecting on his experiences with Hurricane Katrina, Joe McKeever offers encouragement and counsel to pastors of churches impacted by Hurricanes Harvey in Texas and Hurricane Irma in Florida. Read More

• KATRINA 2005-15: 'All we had was the spirit of God'

  by Dennis Watson, posted Monday, August 31, 2015 (9 years ago)

  NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- On the weekend before Hurricane Katrina, we had 2,051 people in worship at Celebration Church. God was blessing our ministry, and we were growing significantly.

  Then Hurricane Katrina came to New Orleans.

  Both of our campuses were inundated by the waters of Hurricane Katrina. Our largest campus on Airline Drive was hit with a seven-foot wave of water. It was under water for two and a half weeks. We lost everything at that campus. Read More

• KATRINA 2005-15: Storm lifted hearts toward God

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

  NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- Raw emotions bubbled to the surface as people struggled with the losses brought about by Hurricane Katrina. As Southern Baptists faithfully offered care to those suffering from the storm, hearts warmed to the Gospel. Read More

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

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

  

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  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: Disaster training proved its worth

  by Tobin Perry, posted Friday, August 28, 2015 (9 years ago)

  GULFPORT, Miss. (BP) -- Dionne Williams opened the large French doors that led into his Gulf Coast home and couldn't believe what five and a half feet of Hurricane Katrina's storm surge had done.

  Clothes were ruined. Books destroyed. Tools unusable. Photos, memorabilia, priceless family mementos gone forever. 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

• KATRINA 2005-15: Winds of change for disaster relief

  by Tobin Perry, posted Friday, August 28, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

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  GULFPORT, Miss. (BP) -- "We've shared the Gospel with so many people in this community, I don't know if there is anyone else we can share with," Randy Corn thought to himself six months after Hurricane Katrina when he arrived in Gulfport, Miss., one of the many Gulf Coast cities devastated by the historic hurricane 10 years ago.

  "I don't know if there's anyone else who hasn't heard the Gospel," Corn thought in beginning a week of Southern Baptist Disaster Relief construction projects through his church, Biltmore Baptist in Arden, N.C., which had served in the area multiple times and seen many give their lives to Christ through SBDR ministry. Read More

• KATRINA 2005-15: NOBTS counts blessings, not losses

  by Gary D. Myers, posted Thursday, August 27, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

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  NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- On the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary is counting blessings rather than losses and leaning into the future with anticipation.

  "We are grateful that God was able to pull out of the rubble of Katrina a city of New Orleans that has more energy and has more vitality than it has had in a very long time," NOBTS President Chuck Kelley said. "And out of the rubble, the seminary is now strong, healthy and doing well." Read More

• KATRINA 2005-15: Still in our 'mind & heart

  by David E. Crosby, posted Thursday, August 27, 2015 (9 years ago)

  NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- Survivors of Hurricane Katrina still share their stories, still experience the trauma in "mind & heart," New Orleans pastor David Crosby writes. "Our memories are not all pleasant, but they are powerful," he writes. "And they continue to shape the people that we are and will become." Read More