Making all things new

Beginning just days after Hurricane Katrina struck the city last August, some New Orleans churches began to mount relief operations that continue to this day.

from the Times Picayune

In the early morning light one day last week, Inman Houston, a Southern Baptist seminary student and a staffer at First Baptist Church New Orleans, climbed onto a makeshift table and called for prayer among a crowd of ragtag volunteers gathered in a 9th Ward parking lot. More than 100 men and women dressed for the heat in shorts, tool belts and work boots fell silent and stood temporarily bareheaded as Houston asked God to bless their work and the tattered neighborhood.

from the Times Picayune