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New Orleans Evacuees Arrive At Oklahoma National Guard Base Near Muskogee

...BRAGGS, Okla. (AP) -- Emergency officials says 39 bus loads of evacuees from the storm-ravaged Gulf Coast region arrived at Camp Gruber, an Oklahoma National Guard barracks located southeast of Muskogee.

Tulsa Red Cross spokeswoman Nellie Kelly says the buses loaded with weary Hurricane Katrina survivors -- many from hard-hit New Orleans -- began arriving at about 10 PM Saturday.

An exact count wasn't available early Sunday morning, but officials say they're prepared for about 2,000 evacuees.

Meanwhile, preparations are being made to house as many as 3,000 additional evacuees at the Falls Creek Baptist Convention Center near Davis, Oklahoma.


and at least 700 OKNG have been sent in to help...

Here are two more links to church groups helping...

LINK

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Volunteers with the Oklahoma Baptist General Convention are cooking hot meals for hurricane victims in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Convention volunteer Mark Smith says the group cooked about 3,500 lunches Saturday with their mobile kitchen.

Smith says they set up at a local church and are cooking food and packing it up for distribution. He says they are giving out large quantities of meals that evacuees can take to others.

Smith says evacuees are staying in churches, schools and homes.

And then I found a similar link to Texan churches helping:
LINK (FROM TEXAS)

The link has all the usual suspects that don't get mentioned on CNNI: The Baptists, the Methodists, the Jewish groups, and of course, the large outreach by Catholic charities...and then I came across this comment:

The Islamic Association of North Texas hopes to partner with synagogues, churches and other groups to raise money for the North Texas Food Bank. Members have raised money during Friday prayers at Dallas area mosques and are encouraging Islamic Relief, an international group, to channel $1 million toward hurricane relief efforts.

"It's part of our faith and part of being Americans," said Khalid Hamideh, a spokesman for the association. "When you see fellow Americans suffering like that, we want to do our share."

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