September 8, 2005

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. – National Ministries has developed a Web page to report on American Baptist Churches USA's hurricane relief efforts.

Reports from churches and associated ministries throughout the United States will be posted to the Katrina Response site at http://www.nationalministries.org/katrina/, also accessible from http://www.abc-usa.org/. The site will be updated with news about the denomination's coordination of its relief efforts across the country.

Messages accessed at the site highlight the relief focus as expressed by key denominational leaders: the Rev. Dr. A. Roy Medley, general secretary, American Baptist Churches USA; the Rev. Dr. Aidsand F. Wright-Riggins III, executive director, National Ministries; and the Rev. Dr. Walter L. Parrish, executive minister, American Baptist Churches of the South.

Prayers that address needs in troubling times, authored by the Rev. Dr. Cheryl Dudley, associate executive director, Church in Community Transformation, are posted, along with a prayer from Chaplain (Captain) Ruth N. Segres, serving at the U.S. Air Force Academy.

American Baptist News Service