This is what our church is all about,” Osteen insisted on the Today show.
“I think if people were here, they would realize there were safety issues.
“But the main thing is the city didn’t ask us to become a shelter then.”.
By the time Osteen announced that Lakewood would soon open its doors, at least four Houston-area mosques had already transformed themselves into 24-hour relief shelters.
Mic’s Anna Swartz later tweeted that the decision to turn the mosques into shelters was done entirely without city request.
We are appalled that your organization is trying to give Lakewood Church a bad reputation.
“I mean, think of the story if we housed a whole bunch of evacuees and the building flooded,” Osteen said. »