You're listening to Breakpoint this week where we're talking about the top stories of the week from a Christian worldview.

Today we're going to talk about the aftermath of Hurricane Helene and what specifically Christians are doing in the area to help their neighbors.

We're also going to talk about the one year anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel and

what implications that has and what we've learned since then.

So we have a lot to get to today,

but we're so glad you're with us.

Please stick around.

Welcome to Breakpoint this week, from the Coulson Center for Christian

worldview. I'm Maria Bear alongside John Stone Street, president of the Coulson

Center. John, this week I've been listening every morning to the World and Everything in it podcast and the world offices are located in Asheville North Carolina

So a lot of the reporters work remotely from other cities across the country, but a lot of the administrative offices and they have a recording studio and a studio, I think for World Watch there in Asheville.

And I've been so encouraged, I mean burdened for them but also encouraged

Obviously after Hurricane Helene kind of ripped through it caused catastrophic flooding in North Carolina including including in Asheville, and World's Headquarters

were completely flooded.

And at the beginning of this week,

they put out a call asking for some help from donors to start to build a fund to repair the building and

by Wednesday this week I think Nick Eicher announced we you know we don't need

anything more and I'm just so I'm like tangentially touched by that like

so grateful that people were so generous but I think that's a that's just one story

of the generosity that's been playing out across North Carolina and some of the areas in Florida and Tennessee

that have been hit by what sounds like a sort of once in a lifetime kind of storm

apocalyptic. Yeah, I mean. I mean, the biblical language being used

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