Simon Cox Blog: Houston Stories: How God Is Working through Bayou City Fellowship in the Aftermath of Hurricane Harvey

Friday 8 September 2017

Houston Stories: How God Is Working through Bayou City Fellowship in the Aftermath of Hurricane Harvey

Church launches website to "Help Houston Get Home."

While we watch Hurricane Irma leave a devastating trail in its wake as it heads towards the Southeastern United States, relief efforts in Texas will continue for months to come in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. With the onslaught of tragedy occurring recently, it can be hard to keep up. But in the midst of it all, we don’t want to lose sight of how God’s people are working in these times of crisis. We are running a series of interviews with church leaders and pastors on the ground helping with relief efforts in Texas. Today, my team interviewed Christa Freyhof, Mobilization Pastor at Bayou City Fellowship.

As I wrote in USAToday last week, faith based groups are leading the way in Harvey recovery and relief. We want to help tell their stories, so let’s jump in.

Ed: While many of us have been watching and praying from a distance, you are on the ground with Hurricane Harvey relief efforts. What’s happening in your town right now in terms of the damage and the work that needs to be done?

Christa Freyhof: We have been in several different phases of rescue and rebuild over the past two weeks since Harvey made its way out of the Houston area. As many people know, Hurricane Harvey brought torrential rains which created a tremendous amount of flooding. In addition to the rain, the demand on the reservoirs in our city became too much to bear, which resulted in the necessary decision to release some of the water. This created an additional level of threat to those in the vicinity of those reservoirs. Many homes in the neighborhoods near the reservoirs were devastated with severe flooding. Depending upon the area of Houston, some of the waters began to recede soon after Harvey left the area, while other areas ...