Earth Changes TV - Flood Victims Give Thanks For Help

Flood Victims Give Thanks For Help...09/27/99
Amid the misery, survivors take time for grateful prayers

(AP) ROCKY MOUNT, N.C., — Curt Sherrod, like hundreds exhausted from preserving family keepsakes and cleaning the mud from their flooded homes, used the Sabbath to take refuge from the storm’s aftermath.

THE 76-YEAR-OLD was among 800 people who attended an outdoor service Sunday at a Rocky Mount church, one of scores across eastern North Carolina where prayers of thanks were lifted toward heaven. “In a time like this, you really realize what God is all about,” Sherrod said at Englewood Baptist Church. “He gives you the courage to get through it.”

A PLACE TO PRAY- Across the region flooded by Hurricane Floyd, church services were held Sunday wherever a dry spot could be found, from parking lots to day-care centers to shelters.

Though never threatened by flood waters, Englewood Baptist Church offered people a place to donate items, to get a hot meal and to pray. The Rev. Donald Pope alluded to that during his sermon he delivered under overcast skies. “We’re going to feed them; we’re going to clothe them; we’re going to give them deodorant, praise God,” Pope said.