Baptist Church Helps Muslim Family Rebound From Katrina

BAPTIST CHURCH HELPS MUSLIM FAMILY REBOUND FROM KATRINA

Volunteer TV, 9/22/05

http://www.volunteertv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3885337

MEMPHIS, Tenn. A Muslim family who fled Hurricane Katrina in a raggedy
minivan is starting a new life in Memphis with help from a Baptist
church and an engineering firm.

Rula Husain, her husband, Amin Askar, and their five boys ages two to
14, lost their business, their home and their possessions in the storm.

The family fled Metairie, Louisiana, on the Sunday before Katrina
struck. Rula loaded the boys into the minivan and drove north 25 miles
to her husband's convenience store. She intended to go back home and
pack some bags, but all traffic was heading north by that time.

The family went, too, with no known destination, finding shelters full
in Louisiana and Mississippi.

When they drove into Memphis, Amin says his wife spotted the three
large crosses at Bellevue Baptist Church and told him, "Those people
will help us." (MORE)

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