'The Life Blood of This Community Right Now': Operation Blessing Delivers Truckloads of Food, and Faith
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CBN's Operation
Blessing has been
on the ground helping Texans
since before Harvey even
made landfall.
Our Erik Rosales
shows us how this help
is giving the victims hope.
Spreading the love of
Jesus through food and other
nonperishable items along
with clothes and shoes--
that's what Operation
Blessing is all about.
Scenes like this
that are happening
all over the state of Texas.
And I've searched and
searched and searched
trying to find food for days.
This is the first time I've
found any kind of food,
and I'm so grateful for it.
Thank y'all so very, very much
for everything you've done.
ERIK ROSALES: Mary
Fisher decided
to ride out the storm in
her La Marque mobile home
with her three grandchildren.
The coastal Texas property
flooded by Saturday night.
Fisher says without
the generosity
of Operation Blessing,
they'd have nothing to eat.
There are no
resources down here.
That 18-wheeler and the food and
clothes that other people have
brought in--
it's the lifeblood of
this community right now.
No, I can't tell you how
much some of these people
have been affected.
There were families that were
just weeping the whole time.
And it's just such a joy to know
that people reach out and help.
ERIK ROSALES: Working
with local churches,
Operation Blessing continues
to deliver truckloads of food
along with hope for
Harvey's victims.
And this truly is Christian
compassion in action.
You hear about it a lot.
You don't see it all that often.
You can see it in
spades right here today.
ERIK ROSALES: Amen to that.
Operation Blessing is set up in
some of the hardest areas hit,
like Rockport, where entire
neighborhoods are gone,
to Taft, where hundreds lined
up in search of clean drinking
water.
It's caused a lot of
heartache in people's lives.
It's caused a lot of
children to be stressed out.
And so we've got folks coming
in here and getting supplies,
and we're praying with them, and
we're sharing the love of Jesus
with them, and encouraging
them, and inviting them
to a personal relationship
with the Lord.
And because of
Operation Blessings,
we're just bigger now, in
everything-- in love, in faith,
in everything.
I don't think there's anything
else I can say, other than just
to thank you.
And that still doesn't
feel like enough.
One by one, families
went home with food
and a better understanding
of Jesus's love
and what it means to serve.
In La Marque, Texas,
Erik Rosales, CBN News.