I ask for prayers for our church (building and people). Our church sits right across from the water in Freeport, TX. We look very much in harms way. I spent last night getting all I could out and putting the rest as high as possible. It was a little weird because our church is full of supplies for Katrina victims. We had two families from New Orleans come to our church and they just got settled into apartments. Families in our church live right on the water also. I would appreciate lots of prayers. Thank you very much.
Good luck rhester. Please keep us apprised of how you faired afterwards. I'm sure there would be folks around here willing to help.
I'm more of science guy, but some town in New Orleans was ripped apart. The people told the reporters to go into the park because they had to see something there. So the reporters went down the street with their camera crew. In the middle of all the destruction, fallen trees, flooded houses, broken bits, a Jesus statue was still standing in the middle of it.
SIGN OF HOPE Statue of Christ stands through storm BY ERIKA BOLSTAD ebolstad@herald.com NEW ORLEANS - After the last winds died down from Hurricane Katrina, there was little optimism among those who remained in New Orleans and could venture out to see what had happened to their city. But in the heart of the French Quarter, in the courtyard behind St. Louis Cathedral, they found a sign of hope. A statue of Jesus, standing with outstretched arms on a white marble pedestal, still stood amid the fallen trees and rubble, nearly unscathed by the destruction all around. A giant magnolia tree had fallen a few feet away; so had an ancient oak. But the statue was unscathed except for a missing finger and thumb on the left hand and a damaged pinkie on the right. On Thursday, soldiers with the Army's 82nd Airborne Division were carefully removing fallen trees from the scenic churchyard on Jackson Square, where the Louisiana Purchase was signed in 1803 and where President Bush spoke to the nation Thursday night. ''They flipped over a log, and there was the finger,'' said Lt. Col. Will Laigaie, the 82nd Airborne's chaplain. ``People are looking for hope, and it's really a promise of recovery.'' The soldiers returned the statue's finger to Archbishop Philip Hannan. Sixty years ago, he served as a chaplain in the 82nd Airborne during World War II. The statue has lost part of its left thumb, and the tip of its right pinkie. But it still stands, Christ's arms outstretched toward the flooded city.
