Stories tagged with: katrina

• Mayor says gambling key to reviving New Orleans economy

  by Staff, posted Monday, October 10, 2005 (18 years ago)

  NEW ORLEANS (BP)--Though he said he is not particularly keen on the practice and would prefer another solution, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin is proposing the implementation of Las Vegas-style gambling in order to jumpstart his city’s economy after Hurricane Katrina. Read More

• Kelley: Flooded seminarians ‘working to heal one another’

  by Sherri Brown, posted Monday, October 10, 2005 (18 years ago)

  Seeing the damage New Orleans Seminary students Melinda and Justin Langford look over the remains of their first-floor apartment. The couple moved into the apartment -- and painted all the rooms -- two weeks before Hurricane Katrina hit, destroying all of their possessions. Photo by Sherri Brown

  NEW ORLEANS (BP)--It’s the hardest thing he’s ever done, said Chuck Kelley, president of New Orleans Baptist Seminary.

        “This is something no one could imagine. There’s no book for this, no path for this,” Kelley said after returning to the campus to help students and faculty dig through flooded houses and mud-covered possessions.

        “Driving through this city is like driving through a Hollywood science fiction set,” he said.

  Kelley, whose house on campus was not flooded, returned Oct. 5 when the campus first opened to faculty and students wanting to return to salvage what they could from their campus houses. He spent the next several days, dressed in a T-shirt and work pants, walking from house to house. Read More

• Prof: Flood damage at residences ‘impossible to comprehend'

  by Sherri Brown, posted Monday, October 10, 2005 (18 years ago)

  NEW ORLEANS (BP)--Instead of heading for the library to study for classes, Justin Langford and his wife, Melinda, spent the weekend sorting through the mud and mold in their New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary apartment, trying to salvage pieces of their lives. Read More

• Disaster relief gets $4M boost Reccord tells NAMB trustees

  by Martin King, posted Friday, October 07, 2005 (18 years ago)

  ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP)--A $2 million challenge for donations to Southern Baptist Disaster Relief has been met and will result in an additional $2 million grant to assist the North American Mission Board in its comprehensive Gulf Coast hurricane relief ministries. Read More

• Experienced chaplain heads to La. to work as chaplain assessor

  by Bob Nigh, Baptist Messenger, posted Friday, October 07, 2005 (18 years ago)

  OKLAHOMA CITY (BP)--Joe Williams knows better than most the enormous psychological, emotional and spiritual toll placed on those who serve as a chaplain in the event of disaster. Read More

• 'Mind-numbing' devastation: Southern team helps in relief

  by David Roach & Jeff Robinson, posted Thursday, October 06, 2005 (18 years ago)

  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--Pictures are typically worth a thousand words, but the images that the television coverage of Hurricane Katrina produced did not prepare Mary Sills for the destruction she witnessed first-hand in southern Mississippi. Read More

• NOBTS president thanks SBTS for ‘sacrificial gift’

  by Jeff Robinson, posted Thursday, October 06, 2005 (18 years ago)

  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--While many see only rubble when looking at what is left of New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Chuck Kelley sees something decidedly different: opportunity.

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• Faith sustained hospital worker as N.O. floodwaters rose

  by Ken Walker, posted Thursday, October 06, 2005 (18 years ago)

  NEW ORLEANS (BP)--With thick, steamy air choking his nostrils, no electricity lighting the hospital building and panicked patients wondering when they would be evacuated after Hurricane Katrina, Whit Tabor’s faith took on a new dimension. Read More

• Coast Guard couple credits faith, prayer for successful rescues

  by Keith Manuel, posted Thursday, October 06, 2005 (18 years ago)

  NEW ORLEANS (BP)--Commander Scott Kitchen describes the United States Coast Guard as one big family, and after Hurricane Katrina, that family participated in what he calls “the biggest rescue effort since Moses.” Read More

• Meals prepared by SBC volunteers hits historic 6 million

  by Tim Yarbrough, posted Wednesday, October 05, 2005 (18 years ago)

  Making dinner and history Southern Baptist Disaster Relief volunteer David Butler of Wichita, Kan., cooks dinner prepared by a Kansas-Nebraska Baptist mobile feeding unit. Butler, a member of Midway Baptist Church, is one of more than 6,000 Southern Baptist disaster relief volunteers assisting Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Butler and volunteers like him have prepared more than 6 million meals, a NAMB record. Photo courtesy of NAMB

  ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP)--As meals prepared by Southern Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers surpassed an historic 6 million Oct. 5, more than 1,400 Southern Baptist churches have committed to the Adopt a Church initiative to assist churches damaged in hurricane-ravaged Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.

        Since Katrina’s landfall in late August and Hurricane Rita's in September, 6,000 disaster relief volunteers from 40 states have prepared 6,087,549 meals for residents and relief workers. Previously, the most meals prepared in a Southern Baptist Disaster Relief response was 2.5 million during Hurricane Andrew in 1992.

  So far, more than 1,300 of 1,431 churches registering online for Adopt a Church have been referred to state conventions in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, which will in turn link the healthy churches with hundreds of churches needing assistance. Churches are still needed to commit to the initiative. Read More