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- And thanks for joiningus for CBN NewsWatch;

I'm Heather Sells.

There is growing concernabout Hurricane Dorian today.

The storm continues to gain strength

as it heads towardsFlorida's Atlantic Coast.

President Trump has approvedan emergency declaration

for the state, and Mark Martinjoins us now with more; Mark.

- Heather, the NationalHurricane Center predicts

Hurricane Dorian willcome ashore early Tuesday

near West Palm Beach.

The agency is still predicting it will be

an extremely dangerousCategory 4 hurricane

with 130 mile-per-hour winds.

Florida's governor put hisstate's residents on alert.

- This is potentially a multi-day event

where it will churnslowly across the state.

That, obviously, createsa whole host of issues.

- [Mark] 17 million people

are potentially in the path of Dorian.

Traffic filled streets.

Residents are scrambling to get gas,

water, sandbags, and other supplies.

At one store, people waited in a line

that wrapped around the building.

- It's gonna be a big storm.

Wind, rain, surge.

Don't take this storm lightly.

- There's gas stationsthat have run out of fuel.

We, in the emergency declaration,

waived service and truckrates for fuel trucks

so that we can increasethe capacity of fuel

that's being brought in.

- FEMA is working with state agencies

to get additional suppliesof fuel into Florida quickly,

and while officials preparefor the storm on the ground,

others do their work in the air.

NOAA sent the first all-femalethree-pilot flight crew

over the hurricane to gather data

on a reconnaissance mission.

Back on the ground, theFlorida National Guard

is also helping.

Several thousand soldiers andairmen have been deployed.

In addition, the Navy orderedsome ships out of the water

as a result of Dorian.

President Trump has alerted the nation

that Dorian could be an absolute monster.

By issuing the emergency declaration,

he ordered federal assistance

to help state and localefforts responding to Dorian.

Heather, back to you.

- Thanks, Mark, and joining uswith more on Hurricane Dorian

is WeatherBELL meteorologist Joe Bastardi.

Joe, tell us more aboutwhat we know right now

about when and where Dorian will land.

- Well, well I have no differencefrom the Hurricane Center;

that's our path from the pastcouple days and this morning;

their path's down theretoward West Palm Beach,

so I can't argue with myself,although sometimes I do.

But, you know, I want to pointout a couple of things here.

First of all, this is amajor, major storm coming.

There's no question about it.

It's gonna devastate the northern Bahamas

and then it's gonna move very, very slowly

up the coast all the wayand it may be a hurricane

all the way to Cape Hatteras

or Norfolk, for instance, Virginia Beach.

That's the first thing.

Second thing, though,

let's look at somepossibly positive aspects.

If it goes in north of Miami like that,

I'm already reading stuffabout the king tides

and the storm surge.

Miami will get a strong northwest wind,

and maybe they have blowout tides,

so you know, you build a city on a sandbar

that was made 100 years ago,

things are gonna happen bad sometimes.

The other thing is, too,

is unlike Michael, and unlike Andrew,

this is not gonna hitthe coast moving fast.

It's gonna be moving very, very slowly.

Now that's bad, of course,because the siege is prolonged,

but it also means that the storm

will be drawing in dryer air off Florida

into the center as it approaches the coast

and also, it will upwell thewater that's underneath it.

You see, these hurricanesneed fresh warm water

so when they move 10, 12, 15 miles an hour

they can continue to intensify.

They start moving five, six miles an hour,

you tend to see them weaken

just before they reach the coast.

There was a classic storm;

well, actually, it wasn'tclassic, it was the only major hit

in the old coast of NorthFlorida in 400 years,

that was Hurricane Dora in '64.

And Dora stalled off thenorth coast of Florida

before coming in and weakened.

So if this thing really moves slowly,

there's a chance it's off its peak.

By that I mean instead of being a four,

it could arrive as a three,

but there's no question abouthow severe this is gonna be.

- Hmm, okay, so it could be athree; that's a possibility.

Tell us a little moreabout what other states

really need to be on alert right now,

and this sounds like a multi-day event.

(Joe laughing)

- It's kind of interestingin that, you know,

one thing I've been blessedwith in looking at the weather

is I can see stuff comingfrom several days away,

that's what we do for our clients.

In this particular case, I've already,

I actually am havingtrouble sleeping at night

'cause I'm constantlythinking of these things

and we're only four days in.

I have another week to go.

By that I mean, look,

this is gonna be overnortheast Florida Wednesday;

Georgia, South Carolina Thursday;

and it will make its approach,it's closest approach

to, you know, Virginia Beach,for instance, probably Friday.

So it's gonna be a prolonged siege

all the way up the Southeast Coast.

Now, there have been worse storms

as far as distributinghurricane-force winds

all the way up the coast.

This is gonna distributehurricane-force winds,

in my opinion, from Florida

to North Carolina, perhaps Virginia.

But Hurricane Donna in 1960?

Every state on the EastCoast from Florida to Maine

had hurricane-force winds,

so there are benchmarkstorms that we do look at.

- Yeah, well, it's a lot to take in.

I appreciate your expertise,and we will be in touch.

Thank you, Joe Bastardi.

- Well, I appreciate you having me on.

- Well, faith-based groupsare packing up this week

and they are hitting the road.

They are ready to respondto whoever will need help

in the aftermath of Dorian.

Operation Blessing deployed this morning

heading for Ocala, Florida inthe central part of the state.

The team will partnerwith local churches there

to mobilize volunteersand help those in need.

- The overall mission is toend human suffering down there

in the disaster-related area,

and how we do that is bysetting up distribution centers

that have non-perishable items

along with hygiene productsand cleaning supplies

to hand out to the community.

Not only that, but weoffer free, hot meals

to the community and thevolunteers that show up.

Those volunteers are critical

and the lifeblood of what we do

down in disaster relief area.

- Other faith-basedgroups heading to Florida

include Samaritan'sPurse, The Convoy of Hope,

and Southern Baptist Disaster Relief.

Sam Porter is the National Director

for Southern Baptist Disaster Relief

and he joins us now with the latest.

Sam, thank you for joining us.

You've been getting readyfor Dorian all week,

and I know you're oneof the largest providers

of disaster relief in the country.

Tell us about how you are partnering

with everyone from FEMA tovolunteers across the country

to coordinate a response to this storm.

- Well, thank you for having us, Heather.

Yes, it's a real cooperativeeffort across the

what we call the disaster world,

and we work very closely with FEMA,

state emergency management operations,

and then also breaking downthe counties and cities,

and also we work very closely

with the other non-profit organizations.

I know Anthony, your directorthere for Operation Blessing,

and we have a very good relationship

and we play very well togetherin the sandbox as we say.

- That's good.

Tell us about thesupplies you're assembling

and how you plan to helpvictims of the storm.

- Yes, our Send Relief,we have a Send Relief

which is the compassion arm

of the North American Mission Board.

The Send Relief part of theNorth American Mission Board

representing the SouthernBaptist Convention,

all the churches of Southern Baptist,

is in Ashland, Kentucky,

and they are actuallyloading supplies right now

with rolled roofing whichis temporary tarping,

temporary roofing for homes

after their roof's beencompromised by the storm.

Then we'll also haveother tools and equipment

to also cover up, to work withchainsaw teams clearing trees

and tree debris from homes and yards,

as well as with this much rain,

we know there's gonna be amassive amount of flooding,

and so we'll have a lot offlood relief cleaning supplies

and we will send that.

We'll stage that probablysomewhere in the Atlanta area

to where we can get in,

but as large as this is going to become,

we're gonna be puttingsupplies in at least primarily,

to start with, five locations,but we'll put in supplies

to every place we have a disaster team.

- Sam, I know we're prayingthat this storm will diminish.

We're praying for those whomight be affected by it.

How can we pray for you and your team

as you're making decisions?

- Well, one, we wantto first pray for those

that are in the path of the storm.

That is our number one concern.

And then that they'll have safety,

but then also, we just want to pray

that Southern Baptist Disaster Relief

and the support of Send Relief,which represents, again,

all the Southern Baptist churchesacross the United States,

that we'll have volunteersthat will be ready to serve

and just to pray to that end.

I would really challenge

all the Southern Baptistchurches out there

to be ready to helpsupport your national team.

We have disaster relief volunteers

in all 50 states and all the territories,

and so we just pray thatwe will be able to respond

in a very significantway to help the people.

- Yeah, to what sounds likea very significant storm.

All right, Sam Porter withSouthern Baptist Disaster Relief,

thanks for your time.- Thank you.

- Well turning to other news,

police are encouraging Hong Kong residents

to stay away from anynon-authorized rallies tomorrow

after authorities banned a major march,

warning that those caught couldface a five-year jail term.

Hong Kong pro-democracyactivist Joshua Wong

was arrested yesterday.

He was charged with incitingothers to join a protest

outside a police station in June.

Wong says he is not afraid of white terror

and that he plans to continue protesting.

He and fellow activist AgnesChow were released on bail

after being arrested andcharged earlier in the day.

And CBN Senior InternationalReporter Dale Hurd

joins us now by Skype.

Dale, I understand thatyou predicted last week

that the leaders of theHong Kong protest movement

would be arrested.

What led you to that thinkingand what do you think now?

- Heather, I was on a radio program

and I, to me, the thinkingof Beijing and the logic,

you know, the evil logic of Beijing,

the way this, I expect, to end

is for the leaders to simply disappear,

to get sucked into the Chinese, you know,

the country of China just tobe removed from Hong Kong.

They can't have another Tiananmen Square.

They can't have a lotof bodies in the street,

and so I think the movementwill be decapitated,

then, today, we saw two leadersget picked up by police cars

and was thankful to seethem be released, though.

- Joshua Wong mentioned white terror.

Talk about what is meant,right now, by white terror.

- He's not talking about white people,

he's talking about state terror

and he has reason to be concerned

because China practicesthis so-called state terror,

white terror, on its own people

every day on a immense scale,

and these young people are very courageous

and they're taking a lot ofrisks, what they're doing.

- We've seen video ofprotestors singing praise songs,

praying; how would youcharacterize the importance

of the Christian faith to this movement?

- Yeah, you know, I wouldsay it's extraordinary

except we serve an extraordinary God,

and so it's just a blessing,it's a wonderful thing.

This goes back to 2014, andthis can't be overstated.

You know, sometimes we kind of,

we're kind of hoping Christianityis the center of something

but it really is at thecenter of these protests

and it makes a lot of sense

because communism wasa movement against God.

It is God-less, and HongKong was, in a sense,

formed by missionariesalong with merchants,

and so it was a bastion of Christianity,

and so here we are in 2019

with communism versus Christianity.

- Fascinating.

All right, Dale Hurd,thanks for your insights.

- Thank you.

- Well, in Africa, morethan 2,000 people have died

from an Ebola outbreak in theDemocratic Republic of Congo

and that is the largest number of deaths

since the two-year outbreak in West Africa

that began in 2014 where11,000 people died.

The World Health Organizationsays the Ebola outbreak

is a public health emergencyof international concern.

The number of religiouslyunaffiliated people in America

is on the rise.

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The resolution noted that 70% of the group

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Well, the religiously unaffiliated,

or those who identifywith no religious group,

are also called Nones,that is spelled N-O-N-E-S,

and it's a group that's growing

and the question for churches right now

is how to reach them.

Amanda grew up as a None.

She never went to church orspoke with anyone who did.

My mom always told me that we don't talk

to people who believe in God

'cause they're weird or they're different.

- [Heather] Craig, on the other hand,

grew up going to church buttook a stand in high school.

- At that point I said,"I'm done with the church.

"I don't want to go.

"I don't see any benefit,

"I don't see any reasonwhy I should be going."

- Both Craig and Amandarepresent a growing group.

The Pew Research Center found

that almost a quarter of US adults

say they either question God's existence

or that their religionin nothing in particular.

That's up significantlyin just the last 10 years

with these Nones now representing36 million Americans.

Pew also found that athird of young people

fall into this group and high numbers

live in the Northwest and Northeast.

So why are so many Americansdisconnecting from church?

We came here to New England to find out

and to learn what churches here

are doing to bring them back.

- It's a new phenomenonwe're trying to understand.

- [Heather] Dr. SharonKetcham at Gordon College

outside of Boston and other experts

are trying to figureout why a new generation

is so anti-church.

What we do know:

These Nones don't believein their faith anymore

or the need for church.

Craig says that's what hethought in his twenties.

- Really it was, okay, youknow, yes, I believe in you God

but I'm gonna do things my way

and as long as I'm a good person,

and as long as I do enoughgood deeds that will be enough.

- [Heather] Others say they're unsure

about so-called organizedreligion or just don't go.

- Church never crossed my mind

as in something that I needed to do.

- [Heather] Ketcham sees a bigger picture:

A culture in which people,as consumers, judge church

based on what it providesfor their personal needs.

- We then have theamplification of me and Jesus

and a reduction of thelarger understanding

of what the community of faith is about.

- [Heather] Another part ofthe problem, says Ketcham,

is simply the growing number of choices.

- There were days that we lived in

where communities were given in our lives,

but today, community's voluntary.

I can choose whateverchurch, whatever small group,

whatever program meets my personal needs.

- I think this may be one--

- [Heather] Pastor ChadBraswell is well aware

of those who are disconnected,

but says he's not discouraged.

- And so I just think thatwhen times get darker,

lights shine brighter,

and so it's an interestingthing that we're seeing here,

because yes, I see thenumbers that you see,

but I see this growinghunger after Christ.

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- [Heather] Many first-timerscoming to his church

tell Braswell their experiences of guilt

or shame in previous churches

overwhelmed any message of grace or hope.

- A lot of churches putso much focus on holiness

rather than the hopethat Jesus talks about.

I think some people just feel

they can't live up to that expectation

and the guilt of what they'vedone or what they are into.

- [Heather] A focus on gracedrew in Amanda her first time.

The single mom remembersa co-worker's invitation

to an Easter service

and how she cried throughout the sermon.

- I was so freaked out aboutthe entire message, and crying.

I was embarrassed; I went out back

and I got my daughter from kids' church,

and I'm like, "We arenever coming back here."

And she's like, "But, Mom,I met so many new friends!

"We have to come back; I love it here!"

- [Heather] Today, Amanda is involved

in multiple ministries at Metro Church,

as is Craig, whose wifebrought him five years ago.

- At this point in mylife, I couldn't imagine

doing life without this community,

and without this group of people.

- [Heather] That deep connection is key

because research shows thatpeople long for community

and a bigger purpose than just themselves.

There's no easy fix or formula

for reaching those who havestepped away from church,

but a church that loves its members

and community is a great start.

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- Well, over a hundred thousand people

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This was the 30th year of the event,

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Dan Andros, Managing Editor of Faithwire,

is here to tell us more about the event.

- Dan.- Yeah, it's amazing.

This is a humongous event andevery year we're blown away

by the numbers.

As you said, hundredsof thousands of people

over the weekend there,

and thousands making aproclamation of faith.

Really, an amazing statement,

and really one that often gets ignored

by the mainstream media,

but Pastor Greg Laurie hasbeen running this event.

You have all kinds of bigacts there like Lecrae,

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Really great to see, youknow, a bit of a revival.

I mean, people talk aboutChristianity being on the decline

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Obviously CBN and Faithwire

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even if the mainstream media ignores it,

but lots of people makinga proclamation of faith

in the name of Jesus andit's really cool to see.

- Well, if you're lookingfor family-friendly,

faith-based films this fall,we've got a list of three

that you're gonna want to check out; Dan.

- Yeah, well, faith-based movies

are not in short supply these days.

Again, it's another one of those things

you're not always gonna see the publicity

from the media on some of these movies

and we've got a couple for ya

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This first one is called "Overcomer."

It's from the Kendrickbrothers who, of course,

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So this one's called "Overcomer."

It's about a small highschool basketball team.

And the town faces devastation

as a manufacturing plant closes down.

It forces them to sortof re-shift their roles

and re-find where theyget their identities from

and so it's a greatjourney that all Christians

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The next one's "Catching Faith 2,"

and this one features a person

who we've written about onFaithwire and CBN as well,

an ex-Victoria's Secretmodel, Nicole Weider, is in it

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so something that lotsof people can relate to.

With your family, when you'regoing through difficult times,

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This movie speaks to that.

And finally, "Finding Grace."

It is the story of a familywho's left devastated

after the mom abandons them.

Again, another relatable story,

and to see it dealt within a Christian manner

is something that wecould all benefit from.

- Well, thanks, Dan.

You can find these storiesand more on Facebook

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