BILOXI, Miss. - Scott Kemmis tried to push Hurricane Katrina out of his mind.
Fall is a busy time in the oil and gas industry where he works, and Kemmis, who lives in Glendive, thought that's what needed his attention. But he couldn't ignore the nagging feeling that he needed to do something to ease suffering on the Gulf Coast.
"God was pulling at my heart, and he wouldn't let me go to work," Kemmis said.
So Kemmis joined dozens of other volunteers with the Montana Southern Baptist Convention who opened up a mobile kitchen on the outskirts of Biloxi. So far, they have served 70,000 to 80,000 meals to residents in this community, where most neighborhoods have been reduced to piles of bricks and twisted tangles of wires, wood and sheet metal.
On Thursday, the Montana volunteers were packing up and anticipating news that they'd be moved somewhere new to respond to Hurricane Rita. Earlier in the week, they were told they were going to Houma, La., outside New Orleans, to help hurricane survivors there. But that town has been evacuated.
"We're not sure where we're headed next," said Steve Fowler, of Billings, who is supervising the meal operation in Biloxi.
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