Posted by Sometimes God brings us homeowners to work with through the strangest avenues. Ava wasn’t looking for help with her home when she took her car to Midas for repairs. She didn’t know that Steve the manager attended Bayshore Bible Church, our partner church in the Corpus Christi Harvey response. But she did end up telling…Read more »
Posted by It’s been almost three months since a devastating explosion in Beirut, Lebanon killed over 200 people, caused billions in damage, and left 300,000 people homeless. The local church responded quickly to cleaning up the city, sweeping debris, handing out sandwiches and water, and praying with people. The military assigned them a sector of 200 families.…Read more »
Posted by It all started on August 25, 2017, when Hurricane Harvey hit the Gulf Coast. ReachGlobal Crisis Response formed a partnership with Bayshore Bible Church in Corpus Christi. As a member of Bayshore, Kevin Saegert felt moved to help those in the surrounding communities of Rockport, Aransas Pass, Ingleside, and Port Aransas. These communities were hit…Read more »
Posted by “The sound of generators, the smell of mold, and the sight of tarps flapping in the wind cause sensory overload as I drive through Lake Charles today. Heavy hearts abound knowing that insurance won’t cover this damage.” This was part of our staff’s initial report from Lake Charles. Lake Charles has now been hit directly…Read more »
Posted by Our Covington site spent several days preparing for Hurricane Sally to make a direct hit in Southeast Louisiana, only to find that the storm turned east instead and dropped about 2.5 feet of rain in Pensacola, Florida. By the time the storm cleared the area many trees and branches had come down and most of…Read more »
Posted by Each month of 2020 seems to bring a new crisis to mind. So far we have experienced an ongoing pandemic, riots and protests nationwide, rivers flooding in the north, fires raging in the west, and we are still right in the heart of one of the most active hurricane seasons ever. Altogether the picture can…Read more »
Posted by In May of this year a small tornado passed near our site in Friendswood, Texas. None of the homes we were working on reported any damage, but we did get word of a small Assembly of God church that had been impacted. They had a lot of roof damage and then some interior damage to…Read more »
Posted by “The scenery looks like Hiroshima. I saw literally around 200 injured lying on the ground of a hospital that has been itself half destroyed. The scene looks like a battle field. There are some damage at the church building. But now we care for the injured souls”, our partner, and lead pastor of the Free…Read more »
Posted by What can we do in a stay-at-home world where volunteer mission teams are all cancelled? How can we disciple people effectively in a world of virtual connections? How about a virtual missions trip? We prayed for how God could use us during this Covid-19 stay-at-home time. The idea of leading a virtual mission trip with…Read more »
Posted by While the world concluded the celebration of Easter amid the Covid pandemic, a series of tornadoes crushed numerous communities across the southeast, leaving many residents who were heeding the Covid ‘stay at home’ orders, now with no place to stay. One particularly hard hit community was Ooltewah, TN, near of Chattanooga, and home to Two…Read more »
