Religion Roundup
Makeshift Church Services Held on Texas Coast
Associated Press
September 22, 2008
ANAHUAC, Texas - Clutching Bibles and weeping between hymns, residents of the storm-shattered Texas coast have comforted each other at makeshift church services.
About 50 people came together Sunday on a basketball court outside the Oak Island Baptist Church, about a mile from the tip of Trinity Bay. They were forced outdoors by the layer of mud left inside their single-story church building by floodwaters that tossed pews like matchsticks.
In Galveston, newlyweds Bobby and Pamela Quiroga sought comfort at a Mass set up in the historic Hotel Galvez. They went to their Roman Catholic church a week ago, but it was closed.
Similar services were held on Galveston Island and throughout the Houston area, where power has been restored to enough residents that schools plan to resume classes today.
Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.
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