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Article: Racine, Kenosha churches plan benefit concert for hurricane evacuees; Organizers want to lend a hand to people starting new lives in Wisconsin
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- September 22, 2005
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Racine As roughly 150 families from the Gulf Coast make Racine or
Kenosha counties their new home after fleeing from the aftermath of
Hurricane Katrina, area churches and ministries are working together
to assemble a benefit concert in hopes of lending a hand.
Organizers say the benefit concert that Abundant Life Christian
Center Ministries in Racine is planning is the first collective
disaster response on behalf of faith-based organizations in the
Racine and Kenosha area.
"We believe that it is our responsibility to provide a helping
hand to those in desperate need," the Rev. Elliott K. Cohen, the
event's organizer, said Wednesday.
The benefit concert will begin at 7 p.m. Sept. 30 at ...