At least a half-dozen families who attend Churches of Christ must rebuild after the largest blaze in Texas history.
By Bobby Ross Jr. | The Christian Chronicle
Multiple members of Churches of Christ have lost homes in the Texas Panhandle wildfire, which has grown into the largest in state history.
The blaze destroyed the residences of three families who attend the Canadian Church of Christ, about 100 miles northeast of Amarillo.
“Several others have smoke damage from being close to the fire,” Canadian preaching minister Jake Perkins said. “And many somehow survived it (with houses intact) as the fire went right around their home or right up next to it.”
Canadian, with a population of about 2,200, is an oil-and-gas and ranching community.
“A lot of people lost a lot of cows,” Perkins said. “We had one member whose house was OK, but he lost over 600 head of cattle.”
Likewise, three member families of the Fritch Church of Christ — in a hard-hit town of 1,900 about 35 miles northeast of Amarillo — must rebuild.
This story appears in the online edition of The Christian Chronicle.
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