{"id":134088,"date":"2025-01-10T12:22:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T17:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=134088"},"modified":"2025-01-10T17:55:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T22:55:38","slug":"a-north-carolina-fire-chief-reflects-on-gods-work-in-his-community-after-hurricane-helene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=134088","title":{"rendered":"A North Carolina Fire Chief Reflects on God&#8217;s Work in His Community After Hurricane Helene"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Fire Chief Stephen Freeman has lived in Bat Cave, North Carolina, for more than six decades. He\u2019s seen severe and deadly weather events. But he\u2019d never seen anything like the force of water that swept through the southern Appalachians in September of last year. He said he\u2019s also experienced God\u2019s presence and the love of God\u2019s people in amazing ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s happened is catastrophic,\u201d he said. \u201cBut you can see God\u2019s love coming in. It is so good to see God in action. Actions speak louder than words. And the love of Christ has shown through Samaritan\u2019s Purse. They\u2019re in it for the long haul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou see God\u2019s beauty in all this instead of seeing all this destruction. Taking something that\u2019s real bad and turning it into something good. Everything is getting better every day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.samaritanspurse.org\/article\/fire-chief-reflects-on-gods-work-in-his-community-after-helene\/\">Read it all<\/a> and please take the time to watch the powerful video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fire Chief Stephen Freeman has lived in Bat Cave, North Carolina, for more than six decades. He\u2019s seen severe and deadly weather events. But he\u2019d never seen anything like the force of water that swept through the southern Appalachians in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=134088\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[190,184,436,578,108,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-disasters-earthquakes-tornadoes-hurricanes-etc","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-care","category-policefire","category-religion-culture","category-stewardship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134089,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134088\/revisions\/134089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}