{"id":62817,"date":"2017-08-28T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=62817"},"modified":"2017-08-28T11:06:49","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T15:06:49","slug":"houston-churches-fight-flooding-after-harvey-cancels-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=62817","title":{"rendered":"Houston Churches Fight Flooding After Harvey Cancels Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI don\u2019t know that I\u2019ve ever prayed&#8230;like I prayed today, just asking God to have mercy on us&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HarveyStorm?src=hash\">#HarveyStorm<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/haaUGlY8Ta\">https:\/\/t.co\/haaUGlY8Ta<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Christianity Today (@CTmagazine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CTmagazine\/status\/902169096204279808\">August 28, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">Almost all Houston-area churches\u2014including the Bayou City\u2019s biggest congregations such as Second Baptist, Houston\u2019s First Baptist, Church Without Walls, Wheeler Avenue Baptist, and Woodlands Church\u2014canceled all Sunday activities as a precaution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">The congregations were glad they did when unprecedented rain levels ended up blocking many routes and\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bobbyross\/status\/901969404979765248\">leaking<\/a>\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ctkelc\/\">into<\/a>\u00a0some church buildings by Saturday night and Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">\u201cWe have five services on the weekend, and I cannot ever remember canceling all services,\u201d said Chris Seay, lead pastor at Ecclesia. \u201cWe asked our community to stay home with family and to look out for their neighbors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">Gregg Matte, pastor at Houston\u2019s First Baptist, spent the weekend checking in with members of his congregation\u2014from elderly evacuees to a local TV meteorologist\u2014with whom he has been texting Bible verses in between broadcasts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">\u201cI don\u2019t know that I\u2019ve ever prayed like that, like I prayed today, just asking God to have mercy on us,\u201d Matte\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HoustonsFirst\/posts\/10154525073505666\">said<\/a>\u00a0in a Facebook video Sunday evening. \u201cJust make the rain stop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/news\/2017\/august\/houston-churches-fight-flooding-hurricane-harvey-cancels-se.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know that I\u2019ve ever prayed&#8230;like I prayed today, just asking God to have mercy on us&quot; #HarveyStorm https:\/\/t.co\/haaUGlY8Ta &mdash; Christianity Today (@CTmagazine) August 28, 2017 Almost all Houston-area churches\u2014including the Bayou City\u2019s biggest congregations such as Second Baptist,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=62817\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-disasters-earthquakes-tornadoes-hurricanes-etc","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62817","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=62817"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62821,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62817\/revisions\/62821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}