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Hurricane Katrina News

The PC(USA) website has a new page with timely updates on our efforts to assist in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Click on the icon to find out how you can help the ongoing efforts of our denomination as we reach out to our neighbors along the Gulf coast. At our recent steering committee meeting we discussed the possibilities of what we could do to help with the ongoing relief efforts. Check back here for updates as we learn of them.

A Hurricane Katrina Multimedia Prayer

Sometimes our prayers shouldn't be cluttered up with too many words. The links below are to Power Point files that were our recent multi-media prayer of intercession for the victims of Hurricane Katrina.Perhaps the sights and the music will stir your heart in prayer as it did ours when we offered whatever thoughts and words we could muster as we reflected on the suffering of so many.The Power Point Show is a large file -- 18 mb -- so it will take a while to download, depending on your connection speed. (But we think it's worth the wait.)(To play the music automatically in the show, you need to download this wma file to your desktop first): Safe Harbors Download Hurricane Katrina Prayer Here (Power Point File)Download Hurricane Katrina Prayer Here (Power Point Show) May this experiental prayer stir you to respond to such needs as these images show. What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if you say you have faith but do not have works? Can faith save you? {15} If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, {16} and one of you says to them, "Go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill," and yet you do not supply their bodily needs, what is the good of that? {17} So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead. {18} But someone will say, "You have faith and I have works." Show me your faith apart from your works, and I by my works will show you my faith. {19} You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe--and shudder. {20} Do you want to be shown, you senseless person, that faith apart from works is barren? {21} Was not our ancestor Abraham justified by works when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? {22} You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was brought to completion by the works. {23} Thus the scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness," and he was called the friend of God. {24} You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone. {25} Likewise, was not Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when she welcomed the messengers and sent them out by another road? {26} For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is also dead.

(James 2:14-26 NRSV)