Since our last post a disaster and now a horrific crisis has kept me and my family glued to the news and praying for those in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Many thousands of citizens have been displaced from their homes because of hurricane Katrina. According to reports there are many more to be moved to instate facilities (community buildings, hospitals, nursing homes, churches, homes, etc.) that are already being filled up. Here in Huntingdon some 500 will be brought and placed in nursing homes, community buildings and homes. I have offered a place for 2 or 3 in our home and the possibility of several sleeping on pallets and or air mattresses in the basement of our church. Yes we have a challenge to care for these people and by the Lord's help and the unity of the people in this country it can and will be done. Necessity is the cry of the moment. . . .

According to reports by the State Overseer of the Church of God of Prophecy in Mississippi, all of the church buildins there on the Gulf and instate withstood the storm and are still standing. For this we give God the praise. Now we must reach out to those who were not so blessed.