The devastating fires on Maui burned more than 2,000 homes and buildings in Lahaina. Many churches have taken in their congregants because they have nowhere to go.
so anyone can watch. But last Sunday, pastor Estrella Arquero wasn't able to go live online. She's busy caring for the congregants still living at the church.
With her husband on the phone trying to get clearance to enter the burn zone to bring in supplies, Arquero said this is how she'll pray the next time she stands in front of her congregation."You are good God. We believe in you. That you are good. That you will will hold our hand, that you will give us the strength, that you will supply the needs for our people whose houses and most everything is gone.
With them in loss. With them in pain. With them in the love they show each other through Koinonia Pentecostal Church.The number of people known to have died in the horrific wildfire that leveled a Hawaiian town is now more than 110, authorities said, as a makeshift morgue was expanded to deal with the tragedy. Governor Josh Green has repeatedly warned that the final toll from last week's inferno in Lahaina, already the deadliest U.S. wildfire in over a century, would grow significantly.
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