Churches open as shelters as Katrina attacks
Aug 29, 2005
By Staff
Baptist Press

BILOXI, Miss. (BP)--Baptist churches and association buildings across the region were being opened as shelters for those fleeing Hurricane Katrina, which made landfall near Grand Isles, La., early Aug. 29 as a Category 4 storm with maximum winds of 140 mph battering the Louisiana and Mississippi coasts.

New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary President Chuck Kelley issued a mandatory evacuation for everyone on campus Saturday morning as Katrina approached. Notices were hand delivered to every door on campus, and all students, faculty and nonessential staff members were encouraged to leave immediately. Seminary classes and offices were closed Monday through at least Wednesday pending the hurricane’s impact on the campus and the city at large.

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