Churches help ease pain of flood victims
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP) - Southern Baptist churches as places of refuge and cleanup volunteers helped residents by large tidal wave in the Midwest left at least 17 dead and nearly half of Arkansas’ counties, as a disaster.
Floods, started 18 and March 24 March, the withdrawal of hundreds of internally displaced persons in the south-eastern part of Missouri, many of them have resorted to churches, including First Baptist churches Delta, Marble Hill and Ellington.
First Baptist Church in Piedmont served as a preamble to Missouri Baptist aid disaster mass care feeding followers of Cape Girardeau Baptist Association, 2000 hot meals available to workers and victims. A trailer from the shower Jefferson Baptist Association is still on the site, in the Piedmont region, the officials said.
Fed by torrential rains, the Meramec River in Mississippi Rivers and the proximity of inflated to record levels, the eviction and killing of hundreds of five at least in this area, one of them was Walter Baker, a deacon and a member of more than 50 years where the first Baptist Ellington.
Given that Baker was crossing the bridge over the creek, swollen separated from his homeland, his machine and equipment-Shop, a motorhome trailer was floating the creek, destroying the bridge and throw Baker in the rustling d water.
Jim Stewart, pastor of the First Baptist, he said, and many members of the Church in the sustained efforts of the search so they could during the flood, but the period of 81 years Baker was found, it was too late. Baker has played an active role in the local community room and the Church, said Stewart.
“He never missed a Sunday, [he] learned of Youth for a time and taught Sunday School. It has been a great missionary in our community. He had never afraid to tell you about Jesus or load Up to the church, “the Rev. Dit.
The flooding has affected 70 of Missouri’s 114 constituencies, what President Bush to declare a part of the federal government, disaster areas, taking charge of FEMA. The other Mississippi River, 45 meters in Cape Girardeau, 13 feet above flood stage.
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