{"id":420643,"date":"2026-08-29T23:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T23:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/420643\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T23:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T23:54:08","slug":"2-texas-based-churches-hold-storm-relief-giveaway-for-residents-in-gary-indiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/420643\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Texas-based churches hold storm relief giveaway for residents in Gary, Indiana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than two weeks after severe storms and prolonged power outages in Northwest Indiana, two Texas-based organizations brought relief efforts to Gary.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;True ministry is seeing the need and meeting the need and that&#8217;s what they did today,&#8221; said Bishop Roosevelt Dixon of Christ Center Church.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is where the long-term recovery efforts come in,&#8221; said Tiffany Brinkley of United Megacare. &#8220;This is not a one-time outreach. We were boots on the ground today, but if this was ever to happen again, God forbid, we want to know that they have family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Potter&#8217;s House of Dallas and United Megacare gave away 1,500 boxes containing essentials like food, water, and toiletries for families. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/news\/president-trump-approves-emergency-declaration-for-indiana\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Federal help is available across Indiana<\/a>\u00a0for victims of storm damage.<\/p>\n<p>FEMA disaster assistance has mobile intake centers through Sept. 5. <\/p>\n<p>Indiana also has its own <a href=\"https:\/\/app.smartsheet.com\/b\/form\/01a019f5a4457f0495bbef680cff9c75\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">disaster relief fund<\/a>. Residents can apply online and receive up to $5,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than two weeks after severe storms and prolonged power outages in Northwest Indiana, two Texas-based organizations brought&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[146493,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-420643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-gary-indiana","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}