"The devastation is unbelievable, but the opportunity to help is even greater,” says Bluefield College sophomore Myra Bankert, one of four BC students who recently returned from a mission trip to the Gulf Coast to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Bankert, of Botetourt County, joined classmates Shane Carr of Botetourt, Mary Mick of Princeton, W. Va., and David Neel of Bland, along with Bill Shockley, a BC assistant professor of business, on the seven-day assignment to Slidell, La., where months after the hurricane floodwaters have receded, the ruin remains.