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Testimony From Inside The Southern Louisiana Flood
Supt. Mark Ellis, Chairman COGIC Publishing House
Pastor, United Christian Faith Ministries COGIC
Baton Rouge, LA
On Saturday, August 13, 2016, I was watching the news while watching outside my home. The river rose 8 feet in 24 hours and I could literally see the water slowly coming toward my house early that afternoon. I called the Parish Emergency line and asked if it was expected to flood at my location, but they assured me that the water would not rise to a level that would flood my home. When I hung up the phone, God said to me, “Get your family out of this house.” I quickly packed 2 days’ worth of clothing, loaded my family into the car and headed to Jackson, MS.
On our way out of the city, we saw approximately 20 of the large Army National Guard trucks racing to our town with large boats. I was wondering what they knew that we apparently didn’t. What we did not realize was that the Amite River levee could not hold the 55 inches of water we received in less than 10 days. The levee gave in and the city flooded in areas unimaginable.
In a very short span of time, you needed boats to get to our neighborhood and to my church. Within one day’s time, I felt that I had lost almost everything that I had worked so hard for over the last 25 years.
Starting over is never easy but when people are depending on you and you can’t respond to them, it’s heartbreaking. So many of my members were calling me late Saturday night, asking me to pray that they be rescued by boat as the Amite, Comite and Bayou Manchac rivers rushed toward and through their homes.
Having support from brothers and sisters who have empathy and care means so much at a time like this. It takes someone who has gone through something similar to truly understand what we are currently experiencing.