From Tennessee to Texas, churches shelter and serve hurricane evacuees

By Erik Tryggestad
The Christian Chronicle
9-2-08

Congregations continued on Tuesday offering shelter, food, clothing and other necessities to those who had fled Hurricane Gustav, even as many made arrangements to begin returning to their Gulf Coast homes.

While Gustav's punch paled in comparison to that delivered by Hurricane Katrina three years ago, there was no way to know exactly where or how hard the storm would hit. An estimated 2 million residents of Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama heeded evacuation pleas, some of them arriving by bus or car at shelters staffed by Church of Christ volunteers or makeshift dormitories at church activity centers or Christian university campuses. the rest

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