Hey Greg Lurie here. As you probably know, we are being devastated in this state by a series of fires that are causing incredible damage.

Power is out for thousands and thousands of people, people have lost their home, thousands have been evacuated.

Firefighters are overwhelmed by the power of these fires.

But I want you to know, well, this is happening right in our backyard.

Many of our people come from L.A.

We have churches we've helped to plant up in Los Angeles as well.

So let's just say we have a lot of skin in this game.

I'm reminded of that horrible fire that basically burned down the old town of Lahaina

in 2023. And we have a church campus on Maui as well. We were there wanting to help people in the name

of Jesus Christ bringing help and hope. By help I mean we're there to help in practical ways for

people with clothing,

with food, with water, other areas, but we're also there with hope. And that's the thing that

I believe we can do the best job of, is pointing people to God. The Bible tells us that God

can bring beauty out of ashes. And we've seen this happen. We've seen people turn to Christ as a result of

experiencing the devastation of losing their home. We see that people are looking for help and hope,

especially at a time like this. So we've established something called the Harvest Relief Fund.

And it's set up for moments like this.

If you would like to support our outreach efforts in our backyard here in California,

for those that have been affected by these fires, just go to Harvest.org slash relief.

I'm reminded of the story of Nehemiah where the walls of Jerusalem were lying in charred

rubble. Nehemiah came up with a plan and they started to build. And that's what's going to happen.

Homes are going to be rebuilt. But most importantly, we want to see lives rebuilt pointing them to Christ.

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