Oklahoma City Church Helps Flood Victims Rebuild

Jacqueline Sit, News 9

EDMOND, Oklahoma -- Five months after a flood devastated Edmond, a metro family is rebuilding their life with the help of their church.

Rachel Lee said she still remembers the high waters that rushed through her home just five months ago.

"At the moment your heart is just breaking, and I don't think I've slept or cried that much in my life, ever," Lee said.

The damages totaled to $50,000 in June, but on any given day, nearly a dozen people from their church, Village United Methodist Church, helped the Lee's rebuild.

"The church looked to raise $5,000 and they tripled that," Lee said.

Church volunteers also helped to salvaged family photos, that Lee said she can't put a dollar amount on. Judy Horne who lived not too far from the Lee's helped pick up the pieces.

"We only lost two pictures, and that was a small thing but it's something that she could've replaced," Horne said. "It meant a lot that I was able to do something that would be of value because you're so overwhelmed when you walk in you don't know what in the world to do. You don't know where you even begin."

To Horne, the pictures may be small but the big picture captured the essence of helping others.

"We're all living proof of that, when things happen in our lives and it seems like it's the worse thing in the world that can happen, people come together," Horne said.

For the Lee family, they said the tragedy was a blessing in disguise.

"Honestly, the strength of the people that have been there to supported me because they've been there for my kids. That's my heart and my life, you know, is my kids," Lee said.

The Lees said the Village United Methodist Church helped offset the debt the family had to rebuild their home.