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Churches rebuild, relocate, evaluate changing community needs.

Publication: Mississippi Business Journal
Publication Date: 25-AUG-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Churches rebuild, relocate, evaluate changing community needs.(After Katrina)

Article Excerpt
Residences, schools and businesses were not the only buildings destroyed and damaged by Hurricane Katrina. Places of worship were devastated too. Faith communities have spent the past three years rebuilding or repairing facilities as they evaluated options, locations and their service to the community's changing needs

Some are following patterns of population north of Interstate 10. They also hope to avoid future hurricanes by relocating their physical buildings away from the water's edge.

Weighty decision

However, Gulfport's St. Peter's by-the-Sea Episcopal Church chose to stay true to its name and remain in view of the water at its downtown location. Building committee chairman Marvin Koury says it was a weighty decision.

"After the storm, nobody knew at first what to do. We survived the first year dealing with our personal lives," he said. "Then we met and prayed about it trying to figure out...

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