Ikki Soma, Houston Rockets Chaplain and Pastor of City of Refuge Church - Episode 34
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2017
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Ikki Soma is the pastor of Pastor City of Refuge Church in Houston, Texas.
He is also one of the team chaplains for the NBA's Houston Rockets.
On this episode of the podcast, we talked with Pastor Ikki about the devastation that is occurring in the city of Houston, and how we all can partner together to help those that are in need.
To help donate and be part of the recovery process, visit http://CityofRefuge.org and click the donate button at the top of the right hand page and put "Harvey Relief" --- 100% of the proceeds to help those displaced and in need of food, shelter and other necessities.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Sports Spectrum podcast where faith and sports |
| 0:07.8 | collide. |
| 0:08.8 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:12.1 | This is episode number 34 of the Sports Spectrum podcast. |
| 0:16.5 | And my name is Jason Romano. |
| 0:17.7 | We thank you so much for joining us here on the program today. |
| 0:20.5 | And as always |
| 0:21.0 | you can be a part of our podcast at sports spectrum dot com or you could subscribe and download the podcast |
| 0:26.8 | at iTunes apple podcast google play stitcher everywhere podcasts are found that's where we are and today's |
| 0:33.3 | podcast is a little different uh this is you know a lot of these of these podcasts, we tape, you know, two, three months in advance, |
| 0:40.4 | even a month in advance. |
| 0:41.6 | This one's basically a couple hours. |
| 0:44.0 | We're taping this on Monday, August 28th, around 1 p.m. Eastern time. |
| 0:49.4 | And our guest today is Ike Soma, and he is the pastor of City of Refuge Church in Houston, Texas. And last night, Sunday night, I was talking to my wife, and I asked her, you know, what can we do to help the people in Houston? You feel helpless. I live in Connecticut and, you know, so far away and, you know, besides just donating money, which we'll talk about, and I think that's a |
| 1:11.4 | great way to help. What else can we do? And my wife said, honey, you host a podcast. And I said, oh, yeah, I do. And right away, when she said that, I said, all right, well, I got to contact my friend Icky and see if he'll come on the podcast and just kind of update us on everything that's happening in Houston. And it just looks grim and dire down there from everything I'm looking at on the news and on social media. |
| 1:34.5 | And Icky joins us here on the Sports Spectrum podcast. |
| 1:37.3 | Pastor Icky, first of all, how are you? |
| 1:39.6 | How are your family and where you guys are down in Houston? |
| 1:43.9 | Again, thanks for the interview. Yeah, |
| 1:46.3 | thank you for asking. We're doing well. My family and I, we've been blessed in the fact that our |
| 1:52.3 | area of town has probably been hit the least by rain. I think we've only had about 14 inches |
| 1:57.5 | compared to some people 24, even 30 inches of rain. So we haven't had a whole lot of flooding. |
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