konnichiwa said:
Mystro-Sama said:
Has Joel Osteen opened his church yet? |
Nop, he got a new paragraph at wikipedia tho:
Hurricane Harvey
In late August 2017, Osteen faced widespread criticism for Lakewood Church not housing evacuees at the start of the floods that followed Hurricane Harvey.[46][47][48][49] In response, a spokesperson for Lakewood Church, Don Iloff, said the property was inaccessible because of surrounding floodwaters and the building itself had been flooded,[50] and announced that they would open the doors once city-run shelters were at capacity.[51] He explained that, "It’s not our unwillingness, it’s just practicality. It’s been a safety issue for us". [52]Iloff also claimed that "We were never closed".[53] Lakewood Church opened to evacuees on August 29.[54]
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I believe he did finally Tuesday right before noon. There were numerous articles calling him out and then a few pointing out that they finally started taking people in.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pastor-joel-osteen-lakewood-megachurch-houston-responds-to-harvey-backlash/
"If you need a shelter we could have been a shelter from day one if they wanted that," Osteen said. "You just have to be here to see that, No. 1, the city runs the shelters, what they need us to do – they asked us for a distribution center and you see hundreds and thousands of volunteers came out."
Victoria and I care deeply about our fellow Houstonians. Lakewood’s doors are open and we are receiving anyone who needs shelter.
— Joel Osteen (@JoelOsteen) August 29, 2017
Asked how many people they've taken in so far, Osteen said, "I don't know how many. I've lost count, but I know there are hundreds, and yesterday we had people bringing supplies and just, you know, we can hardly take any more supplies here but we continue to take people as many as they bring."
https://www.usnews.com/news/entertainment/articles/2017-08-30/joel-osteen-blames-false-narrative-for-harvey-criticism
"Lakewood Church began taking in Harvey evacuees Tuesday afternoon."
Basically they are putting a few hundred people maybe on the second floor of building.
I'm not trying to defend the douchebag because I hate megachurches but apparently the backlash has changed them from a distribution center into a shelter.
