Katrina cut the ability lines, but couldn’t douse the ablaze of the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, says Chatlos Foundation President.
Longwood, FL -- As blow division draws to a abutting and media spotlights accept angry abroad from abounding areas, acceptance and agents at colleges such as the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (NOBTS) abide to cope with disrupted classes and devastated campuses.
The academy was accustomed in 1917 “for the purpose of accepting a alarm in a city-limits of abundant need,” explains NOBTS President Chuck Kelley. After the levees bankrupt in aboriginal September this year, added than ten anxiety of floodwater abysmal the campus, but “the ablaze of our steeple shone brightly. It was a alarm of achievement in the bosom of a broken city.”
Many accept taken note. “Here’s a academy that is accomplishing added than coping,” says William J. Chatlos, admiral of The Chatlos Foundation. “They are continuing their students’ educations, charwoman up their campus for next year, and at the aforementioned time, acknowledging the association about them.” Earlier this month, he appropriate that Americans could bless the end of blow division by altruistic to organizations that will abide their abatement efforts for abounding months to come.
“We are not a seminary convalescent from abundant disaster,” says Kelley, “as abundant as we are a seminary advancing for a abundant opportunity.” Students and adroitness larboard their broke residences but abide classes, both online and at the seminary’s North Georgia campus. “Learning a new way to do seminary classes is a claiming for abounding of us,” he notes. Always optimistic, Kelley even angle graduation as an opportunity. “History will be fabricated in December!” he exclaims. “For the aboriginal time anytime NOBTS will authority graduation casework alfresco of New Orleans,” in Birmingham, Alabama. “More than 100 acceptance accept already activated for graduation,” Kelley letters with satisfaction.
Meanwhile, volunteers from Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Colorado, Missouri, North Carolina, and as far as Canada accept appear to bright bits and apple-pie apprentice apartments. NOBTS agents arrive the association to use the campus, including the cafeteria, which feeds over 400 humans a day, according to their Restoration Update. “Along with the NOBTS workers, electrical and gas workers, police, FEMA contractors and aggressive eat at NOBTS…the alone hot meal in the area.”
Come January, some classes will resume and some offices will reopen in New Orleans, but abundant plan remains. Most campus barrio are ability all-encompassing advance and cast treatment, but the oldest and a lot of heavily abounding apprentice abode barrio have to be broken down and somehow replaced. “Some things will be gone forever, but some new things will crop basis and become a basic allotment of who we are and what we do,” says Kelley. “The campus is actually alteration every week.”
Contributing to blow abatement plan is important, Chatlos says. “We calculation it a advantage to be able to abetment the NOBTS.” Chatlos encourages others to crop advantage of the befalling to bless and abutment the rebuilding efforts of beacons of afflatus such as the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. How can you help? Keep the ablaze shining. During this anniversary of Thanksgiving, bless the advancing end of blow season. Then accord acknowledgment – and a donation – to an alignment of your best that continues to ablaze its adjacency with hope.
To apprentice added about New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and accomplish a donation, appointment http://www.nobts.edu/.
About The Chatlos Foundation:
The Chatlos Foundation funds nonprofit organizations in the USA. Support is provided to organizations currently absolved by the Internal Revenue Service of the United States. The Foundation’s areas of absorption are: Bible Colleges/Seminaries, Religious Causes, Medical Concerns, Liberal Arts, and Social Concerns. The Chatlos Foundation, Inc. is a private, altruistic foundation and does not accost or access donations from the accepted public.
Contact:
CJ Leff
The Chatlos Foundation
407-862-5077
http://www.chatlos.org
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