PASS CHRISTIAN, Miss. — For days after Hurricane Katrina made landfall, three staff members from Gulfshore Baptist Assembly on the Mississippi Gulf Coast were missing.
But as of Sept. 8, all three workers — supposedly in the conference center when the hurricane’s unexpected storm surge hit Aug. 29 — were safe and accounted for, according to Kiely Young of the Mississippi Baptist Convention Board.
The Mississippi convention’s Gulfshore facility, located between Biloxi, Miss., and New Orleans, was destroyed by Hurricane Camille in 1969 and rebuilt to withstand hurricane-force winds.
“Though there was significant damage, the building did exactly what it was built to do,” Young said. “The first floor washed through — just as the architect designed it — but the structure still stands.”
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