Church in Iraq Helps Rebuild New Orleans Parish

[ECH1969]

Aid is coming from a small church in Iraq to hurricane victims in the United States. The 300-member Christian church in Iraq's northern Kurdistan Governance is collecting money to help the Adullam Christian Fellowship church -- a New Orleans church hit hard by hurricane Katrina.

"We saw pictures of the devastation on television," said Rev. Hazem, pastor of the two-year old Kurdzman Church in Iraq. "We were motivated to help the people of New Orleans rebuild so we called our friends at World Compassion to see how to get money to Louisiana."

World Compassion has been working in Iraq since U.S. forces entered Iraq. The president and founder of the non-governmental relief agency, Dr. Terry Law, helped start The Kurdzman Church in Iraq.

The pastor of Adullam Christian Fellowship was equally surprised that a church in Iraq was reaching out to help. "We have been destroyed," said Randy Millett, head of the devastated congregation in St. Bernard's Parish, one of the hardest hit areas of the flooding. Millett's uncle and aunt drowned in their home and his brother and mother-in-law are still missing. "My wife's mother was in St. Rita's Nursing Home where so many elderly perished. We still don't know if she is dead or alive."

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[Dem2theMax]

1. If anyone ever wanted to understand what the word "compassion" meant,

look no further than this story.

Let alone the word "forgiveness."

[JoFerret]

2. Oh! wow.

That's Christian charity for you.