Congregations open hearts, wallets for relief
By PAT KINNEY,
Assistant City Editor
Friday, September 2, 2005 5:08 PM CDT

CEDAR FALLS --- The Rev. Bob Wallace's voice broke with emotion as he related the phone call he had with a fellow pastor in Louisiana.

"She's telling stories of churches which are no longer standing," Wallace, senior pastor of Nazareth Lutheran Church in Cedar Falls, said after a conversation with the Rev. Robin McCullough-Bade of Lafayette, La., a fellow pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

She and her husband, Rev. David-McCullough-Bade, escaped major damage from Hurricane Katrina, "but they're without electricity well into the foreseeable future." Other pastors, and their congregations are in much worse shape.

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