‘Give them Jesus!’ SBC president pleads for disaster relief to Gulf Coast
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--While trudging through the rubble of a broken community in Gulfport, Miss., after Hurricane Katrina, Bobby Welch caught a glimpse of two tiny legs with blue tennis shoes and a flowery skirt lying under some debris.
“I got down on my knee and began to scratch around in the mess there, and I dug out this tiny little baby doll,” Welch, president of the Southern Baptist Convention, told Executive Committee members as he held up a small, dirty doll. “That thing has been through everything imaginable. I can’t imagine all the junk that’s in it. It’s just matted.
Solidarity & sacrifice mark Katrina response of SBC entities
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| Sacrificial giving Jerry Rankin, president of the International Mission Board, announced the IMB is giving $2.5 million of their contingency reserve funds to disaster relief in the Gulf Coast. “We ask that you will pray with us that the Lord will stay His hand on disasters overseas that we won’t need those funds until they have recovered in our reserves,” he said Sept. 19 during the Executive Committee meeting in Nashville, Tenn. Photo by Van Payne |
The Great Commission Council, which is composed of these same entity heads, unanimously supported a recommendation by Executive Committee President Morris H. Chapman that the Executive Committee use beyond-the-budget Cooperative Program contributions for SBC national causes, received for the 2004-05 fiscal year ending Sept. 30 and during the first quarter of the new fiscal year, to support disaster relief efforts.
Bush, speaking from New Orleans, casts vision of brighter days
NEW ORLEANS (BP)--Reminding the nation of its valiant past and persistent resolve to press on through hardship, President Bush sought to lift the spirits of Americans discouraged by the “cruel and wasteful” hurricane that swept through the Gulf Coast nearly three weeks ago.
KATRINA DIGEST: Euthanasia alleged in New Orleans; city doesn’t need ‘rebuilding’; campus ministries to help victims
| Unidentified New Orleans doctor quoted by London’s Daily Mail |
The Daily Mail newspaper in London reported Sept. 11 that doctors killed critically ill patients they believed would not survive an evacuation.
“Those who had no chance of making it were given a lot of morphine and lain down in a dark place to die,” William “Forest” McQueen, an emergency official, told The Mail.
CULTURE DIGEST: Catholic leader warns against homosexuals in seminary; Dembski examines human origins
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Archbishop Edwin O’Brien, the man in charge of a Vatican-ordered review of Catholic seminaries in the United States, says it is best for the schools to prohibit the enrollment of homosexual students.
Car dealership chaplain makes inroads among unchurched
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Jay McAnnally’s job as a corporate chaplain for the Carl Black Automotive Group is simultaneously simple and complex: He just listens to people talk about their struggles and then he prays with them, but the struggles within the car dealership world are heavy and sometimes quite complicated.
Carl Black Automotive shows love of Christ to needy in community
KENNESAW, Ga. (BP)--Because the lives of both the owner and the president of the Carl Black Automotive Group have been changed by the power of Christ, they now look for ways they can use their resources to show compassion to people in their community who have specific needs.
Bush declares Sept. 16 national day of prayer, asks Americans to pray for nation
WASHINGTON (BP)--As the nation unites for the daunting challenge of assisting Hurricane Katrina survivors, President Bush is calling for a national day of prayer and remembrance Friday Sept. 16.
“Throughout our history in times of testing, Americans have come together to heal and ask for strength for the tasks ahead,” Bush said during remarks on hurricane relief Sept. 8. “... I ask that we pray -- as Americans have always prayed in times of trial -- with confidence in His purpose, with hope for a brighter future and with the humility to ask God to keep us strong so that we can better serve our brothers and sisters in need.”
CULTURE DIGEST: N.C. added to list of states with lotteries; Romney’s Mormonism may hurt presidential candidacy
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--The absence of two lottery opponents cleared the way for passage of a state lottery in North Carolina that had been on the governor’s agenda for four years.
La. Baptist Children’s Home offers shelter to Katrina orphans
MONROE, La. (BP)--The Louisiana Baptist Children’s Home in Monroe, La., has begun taking in children and families displaced by the wrath of Hurricane Katrina, executive director Perry Hancock said.
