STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. (BP) -- Back in the winter when New York City tried
to push churches out of public schools, Crossroads Church on Staten
Island didn't know God was moving them to a new location that later
would be right up the block from some of the most severe devastation
left by Hurricane Sandy.
"We see that as His providential hand,
and we're just going with it," said Ray Parascando, pastor of the only
Southern Baptist church on Staten Island.
Members of Crossroads
were first on the scene in the neighborhood when morning broke after the
hurricane cut a deadly path across the Northeast. Next door to the
church, which meets in a theater on New Dorp Lane, is a pizza place
owned by an Egyptian whom the church has been trying to lead to the
Lord.
"He had some dough left over and we said, 'We'll buy you
out. Make the pizzas,'" Parascando told Baptist Press. "We took 25
pizzas down and we were passing them out to folks, walking up and down
the streets, handing out water."
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