Miracle boat story
Published: September 17, 2005
As the rubble clears, workers hand out supplies, and evacuees try to return to normal, stories of miracles abound here in the Deep South.
Sometimes, miracles really do come true. Outside the Victory Praise and Worship Center on Chicot Street in Pascagoula, a small tunnel hull boat rests its bow against the front, now plywood, door of the church. The boat has been resting there since Hurricane Katrina struck Mississippi on August 29, and rumors of it’s appearance have become known in the Pascagoula and Gautier communities simply as “The Boat Story.”
If you ask Pastor Myron Hairston, the boat is a living testament to the ship God sends his people in times of trouble. He recounted the story of his parishioners, who literally caught the boat to safety.
“I’ll tell the story as best I know it. What happened, the night of the hurricane, was that some of the members of this church were trapped in their homes. The water began to rise waist high and they began praying, and while they were praying they were also looking for a way to get out of the water because it was rising and rising so fast in the house they thought they were going to drown. They even thought about going across the street and stealing a couple of boats but they didn’t have to do that.
“As they were done praying, one of the ladies looked out the window and saw that God had provided this boat and they got on this boat with about 14 people in it and two German Shepherd dogs.
“One of the big strong guys who was part of the boat crew pushed the boat one, two, three blocks to this location right here (at the church’s front door). They crawled out of the boat, knocked out that door right there, and they went upstairs and they stayed there for a week. This is just a testimony of what God will do when we pray and when His children are in trouble.”
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