{"id":8377,"date":"2019-08-27T19:28:32","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T19:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/godspitcrew.org\/?p=8377"},"modified":"2020-06-09T16:59:15","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T16:59:15","slug":"larafamily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godspitcrew.org\/larafamily\/","title":{"rendered":"Impact Story: The Lara Family"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhen the last thing your husband says to you is he was walking from the house watching the water rise up through the vents into the house, you don\u2019t know what to expect later,\u201d said Kimberly Lara. Kimberly, her husband Jose, and their two young children lost everything after floodwaters from Hurricane Florence destroyed their home.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou walk into the house after the water is gone and everything is ruined, even after you tried to save it. A few days later, everything you\u2019ve ever worked for is in a pile in front of the house, and can\u2019t imagine how you are going to replace it,\u201d said Kimberly.<\/span><\/p>\n

The devastation and damage to their home were heartbreaking. The Lara\u2019s had no idea how they were going to rebuild.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a start that we couldn\u2019t see the finish line,\u201d said Jose. <\/span><\/p>\n

God\u2019s Pit Crew initially traveled to the North Carolina coast to help with storm debris clean-up, which is when Randy and Terri Johnson first met Jose and Kimberly. After meeting with them, and hearing their story, God\u2019s Pit Crew committed to helping rebuild the Lara\u2019s home. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTo meet so many people who want to help you just because it\u2019s a good thing to do is something unheard of. I didn\u2019t think it was something that could happen to people like us,\u201d said Kimberly. <\/span><\/p>\n

For weeks, small groups of volunteers traveled to Burgaw, North Carolina, to begin putting the Lara home back together. In early February, a larger team of volunteers arrived to finish rebuilding the home and get it furnished and decorated. <\/span><\/p>\n

On February 9, 2019, the Lara family returned to their newly rebuilt home.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere are still good people out there. Even though the hard times, it\u2019s going to get better,\u201d said Jose.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"\u201cThank you is not enough. To some people, it\u2019s just helping rebuild another house because that\u2019s what they do, but to us, you just changed our lives. We didn\u2019t know what to do, we didn\u2019t know where to take our kids. It\u2019s like we just had a rough patch, and now we\u2019re back thanks to God\u2019s Pit Crew, the volunteers, and the people who contributed to this project. Thank you just isn\u2019t enough,\u201d said Kimberly. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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