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  • KATRINA 2005-15: 'We remember'
    by David Hankins, posted Wednesday, August 26, 2015 (9 years ago)

    ALEXANDRIA, La. (BP) -- It's hard to believe it has been 10 years since Hurricane Katrina left her mark across southeast Louisiana. Who can forget how we felt when we saw the broken levees, the flooded homes and churches, the devastation at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, the Superdome refugees and the broken lives.

    Just a month later, approximately 200 miles to the west, Lake Charles and southwest Louisiana were coming to grips with the devastation left by Hurricane Rita. Read More

  • KATRINA 2005-15: Hurricane was 'defining moment'
    by Dianna L. Cagle/North Carolina Biblical Recorder, posted Wednesday, August 26, 2015 (9 years ago)

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    RALEIGH, N.C. (BP) -- Hurricane Katrina was a "defining moment" for North Carolina Baptist Men, the missions organization's leader remembers.

    "It was amazing that that many people would give up so much time … and there were people who made 20-30 trips who drove every time," Richard Brunson, NCBM executive director, said. "They were taking people with them. It was just amazing … even our on-site coordinators. Some of them quit jobs and went down there and worked." Read More

  • KATRINA 2005-15: Gulf Coast church persevered
    by K. Allan Blume & Seth Brown/North Carolina Biblical Recorder, posted Wednesday, August 26, 2015 (9 years ago)

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    GULFPORT, Miss. (BP) -- Shortly after 10 a.m. on a hot Sunday in August 2005, residents of the Mississippi Gulf Coast heard the familiar tone of the National Weather Service’s radio warning.

    “Devastating damage expected,” the report said. Early the next morning, Aug. 29, Katrina made landfall as a Category 3 hurricane. Read More

  • KATRINA 2005-15: 'Test of our faith'
    by Fred Luter, posted Tuesday, August 25, 2015 (9 years ago)

    NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- The devastation of Hurricane Katrina 10 years ago, New Orleans pastor Fred Luter writes, was "a test of our willingness to come back and rebuild. … We will never be the city we had before." Read More

  • After Katrina: What God brought out of chaos
    by David E. Crosby, posted Thursday, July 09, 2015 (9 years ago)

    NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- Genesis 1:2 recounts: "Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters."

    Here in New Orleans nearly 10 years ago, shapes were buried in the water; large colorful forms distorted by shimmering waves lined the neutral ground of West End Boulevard for miles. Read More

  • KATRINA: The storm's devastation, the faithful's determination
    by Karen L. Willoughby, posted Friday, August 27, 2010 (14 years ago)

    NEW ORLEANS (BP)--Five years have passed since Hurricane Katrina hurtled its way across southeastern Louisiana and the rest of the central Gulf Coast.

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          More than 1,800 deaths were recorded. Thousands upon thousands of people were displaced; in New Orleans, the U.S. Census Bureau reported a 53.9 percent drop in population ... Read More

  • KATRINA: A seminary's rise from the flood
    by Gary D. Myers, posted Friday, August 27, 2010 (14 years ago)

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    NEW ORLEANS (BP)--Many of the visible marks left by Hurricane Katrina five years ago have been washed away by time and hard work, but the impact of the storm continues to affect New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. Read More