When Disaster T Strikes

The last few weeks have been filled with moments of lament and exhaustion for myself, the congregation I serve, and the community in which I live. Hurricane Harvey went right over the top of our small town. This caused the Colorado River to rise to nearly 55 feet, flooding many homes and businesses. Our local paper recently reported that one out of 12 students in our school district are without a home.

Our congregation quickly responded to the need in La Grange. Since our local nonprofit Second Chance store was flooded, we opened our doors and became the temporary donation center for the city. We then received a semi-truck full of supplies from Churches of Christ Disaster Relief. We created mobile relief units that went directly to the flood victims giving them the supplies that they needed. At the same time, we kept the doors to our building open so that we could provide people with food, water, toiletries, diapers, cleaning supplies, and more. We had no formal training in what to do in a disaster. We just did what we could.

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