Bay St. Louis in slow recovery

The area around Bay St. Louis is recovering slowly. There were many more
businesses open now than in December. Many of the homes that can't be
repaired have been demo-ed and the debris has been removed. Debris still
remains along the curb on many streets and their are homes that haven't
been mucked yet. There are a very few new homes being built and people are
slowly moving into repaired homes.

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Georgia couple gives up everything for hurricane relief

Apr. 24, 2006

By Woody Woodrick*

PASCAGOULA, Miss. (UMNS) - Many residents of the Gulf Coast lost everything in Hurricane Katrina.

Dee and Jack Boreing gave up everything because of Katrina.

The Boreings are working in Mississippi as site coordinators for work teams helping in recovery efforts. They came to Pascagoula from Douglasville, Ga., where they had lived all their lives.
"We have been in the mission field for many years and knew for the past three years that we wanted to be doing something full time," said Dee Boreing. Members of New Covenant United Methodist Church in Douglasville, the Boreings have made five or six mission trips to Mexico. Family obligations put full-time work on hold, but when that situation changed, the Boreings were ready.
"We told God we were ready to go to Mexico for two years. Nothing came about," said Dee. "We changed our prayer to say, 'We'll go where you want us to go.'

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