Local churches are banding together to help their communities in the wake of mass destruction caused by Hurricane Michael which hit the Florida Panhandle last week.
Residents who evacuated their homes before the Category 4 hurricane reached the Panhandle are now starting to return home to assess the damages, many of them finding that they have nothing left.
Mexico Beach resident Emily Hansen told CBN News, “Everybody we knew lost their house – Everybody – and our jobs.”
Another resident told the outlet, “The devastation – it’s like a bomb just went off here.”
In the face of the destruction, churches, who themselves were not spared destruction, are gearing up to show love to their communities.
One church that’s members are working to help out the community is Destiny Worship Center. Destiny Worship Center which lost the side of its kids building, took to the streets to deliver basic necessities to those in need.
Wayne Asprodites, the pastor of the Destiny Worship Center in Panama City Beach, told CBN News, “Really we’re beginning to communicate to take supplies here on the beach level and bring them over to Panama City and Springfield and Callaway, where the churches there were really destroyed, major damage, and allow them to be collection points for the supplies that people are giving us and distribute to the people in…
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