Titled "After Katrina: Help and Hope," the video will be directed by Courtney Cowart, an Episcopalian and adjunct professor at General Theological Seminary in New York, who helped coordinate recovery services at St. Paul's Chapel in New York after 9/11. The Media Center plans to have the video ready for distribution by Sept. 21.

Cowart and Peter Gudaitis, an Episcopalian who serves as executive director of New York Disaster Interfaith Services, will be in Baton Rouge at St. James' Episcopal Church starting this weekend to consult with ERD workers and bishops from the dioceses of Louisiana, Western Louisiana, Mississippi, Central Gulf Coast and Texas about disaster recovery. A video team from the Episcopal Media Center will be there to record those encounters.

"We have experts in our church who know how to do recovery work, and that includes spiritual recovery," said the Rev. Canon Louis C. Schueddig, executive director of the Episcopal Media Center. "We hope this will be a tool to involve and connect people from all over the country to the massive recovery effort that will be going on for a long time. There also are many theological questions – like where is God in all this? – that can best be answered by the church."

Cowart recently compiled audio reflections about the recovery at ground zero. Titled "Courage -- A Pilgrim's Tour of Ground Zero: Stories from the 9/11 Recovery Community," it was produced by and is available from the Episcopal Media Center.

"After Katrina: Help and Hope" will be approximately 20 minutes long and come with a discussion guide. It will be available on DVD for $29.95 and on VHS for $19.95. To place an order, call the Episcopal Media Center, 800-229-3788 or go to:
www.beliefinaction.com