and of course pastor is appearing weekly and a couple times sunday at jones united methodist church. rt her at jones united memorial methodist church. i'd like to take a moment to thank the members of the committee for their support and participation. as i always say, something like this cannot happen without a committee of people involved. with us today, trevor hunnicut, who started the program off, who say member of the board of drorves the society. lamont bishop is a stalwart member -- where are you? in the back. he's a represent of senator mark leno's office. b.j. jones from public utilities commission is here. stewart. from the public library. and pete fitzsimmons and tannish col -- hollins and camille dawkins. camille is over here. without camille and tannish rkt , none of this happens. so let's give them a round of applause for their wonderful effort. the society's primary mission is to enlighten, to inform, to inspire and to empower. we achieve that mission in a variety of ways. almost always in partnership with others. through our current partnership that trevor spoke to with

. >> that is a member of first united methodist church in sly dell, louisiana, their church suffered great damage after hurricane katrina. their church was so damaged as i recall, they had to have sunday worship service outside. also there was jodie geddies. we are joined by mike from rapid response team, billy graham. christian organizations are often on the front lines of natural disasters and ready to help sometimes more than governmental organizations. jodie, that was a few hours after i arrived in louisiana, after hurricane katrina, i was amazed at the faith these folks were expressing, almost as if they were glad hurricane katrina happened. they experienced a unity among the church they would never have experienced it before. is that the kind of response you hear? >> definitely, lee. disaster is the church's finest hour. it is the very thing that rallies the community together. not only do church goers and believers, first time in a church's life, they see sinners line up by the droves. doesn't matter if you are christian or non christian, they realize the place of shelter, saf

. >> reporter: by the time the family arrived at scotts united methodist church with our news camera, the home had agreed to bury the 81-year-old man first and barter over payment later. >> sometimes we get stuck with the cost. >> reporter: stanley's family said he had a life insurance policy worth $5,000 through aarp but it lapsed in the three-week period when he was on his death bed in the hospital. the retired veteran lived alone. no one knew the bill had come due tucked in his mailbox. >> he took the respirator out and couldn't breathe. fluid was building on his lungses. that's how he died. >> reporter: his daughter said she is relieved that she could honor his last week. >> a nice service. he would have did it for me and anybody else. >> reporter: in talbot county, reporting. >> she was assured the company will pay and will appeal to the insurance company. >>> a 14-year-old waverly boy is charged withen -- as an adult after the beating of his grandmother. hassanhii garrett became angry with his grandmother. when she fell asleep, he hit her in the head with a hammer. the family te