BPC PUBLIC RELATIONS
Hurricane damage, families leave
impressions on Brewton-Parker BCM students
Brewton-Parker College Students Jef
McCalla haul a toilet out of a home ravaged by Hurricane Katrina in
f Tinsley (left) and Justin
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mission trip to the Pascagoula, Miss., area Jan. 3-7.
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As a result of that trip, W
Rowell, pastor of FBC Orange Grove, to bring the larger group.
allace made arrangements with Mike
Wallace said the group’s work ethic caught Rowell off guard.
“It was a small church, and we took almost as many students
as they have members, so the pastor became a little
overwhelmed by the amount of work that college students
could accomplish,” W
for us, we were able to accomplish in half the time he
allace said. “Several of the jobs he had
expected. Some of the work he had planned, other people
had already done.”
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Association and asked how it could utilize the students.
allace and Rowell went to the Jackson Baptist
association took 15 students and 10 stayed with the church
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group, which also had a group of eight from North Carolina.
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neighbors in Biloxi and Gulfport, with 30 feet of flooding going
allace said Pascagoula was not hit as hard as its western
inland as far as 3 miles.
“The thing that hit me about the storm was that it had no
classification: middle-class homes, upper-class homes,
destroyed,” W
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You could drive inland 15 blocks and everything is destroyed.
allace said. “Whoever, whatever was in its path.
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Many residents who had been through the deadly Hurricane
Camille in 1969 decided to ride out Katrina. “One man said
urricane-ravaged residents of Fort Ogden, Fla., found
Camille was a wind storm and this was a water storm,”
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in January and March 2005 how hard Brewton-Parker
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companies don’t cover that (on basic home policies).”
allace said. “And since it was a water storm, insurance
their situations following Hurricane Charley in
College students are willing to work in order to better
August 2004.
The Brewton-Parker delegation stayed at
During the first week of January before Brewton-Parker began
Church outside of Pascagoula, and First Baptist Church of
Temple Baptist
its spring semester
Pascagoula fed the group all week, as it has many mission
area who lost much or all of their belongings to Hurricane
, residents of the Mississippi Gulf Coast groups, Wallace said.
Katrina in
who again was ready to do anything to help improve the lives
August met a hard-working crew of BPC students “W
of those in need.
said Jana Bailey
e mostly went to houses that weren’t completely gutted,”
making her first mission trip. “W
, a Brewton-Parker freshman from Folkston
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Glenn W
places we put in new insulation and put up new sheetrock. It
e cleaned yards, and in some
Ministries, formerly called Baptist Student Union, director at
allace, campus minister and Baptist Collegiate
just depended on what stage a house was at.”
Brewton-Parker
Miss., area via a six-vehicle caravan and spent five days as
, and 25 students ventured to the Pascagoula,
Bailey spoke of a contractor from Indiana who they called
guests of First Baptist Church Orange Grove in Moss Point,
“Uncle Bernie,” who has worked with dif
Miss.
the Jackson Association for the past six months. “His saying
ferent groups through
all week was, ‘Just do it and walk away
In November, Wallace and three students joined about 12
neatness,” she said.
,’ not to worry about
to Orange Grove, on the north edge of Moss Point, to help
members of First Baptist Church in Waynesboro and traveled
Bailey said her toughest memory of the area will be that of the
serve
from Katrina.
Thanksgiving dinner to area residents still recovering
first house they visited, where a family that had three mentally
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