Joel Osteen’s Megachurch Denies ‘Crazy’ Claims of Not Helping Hurricane Harvey Victims: ‘We Were Never Closed’
After Joel Osteen was heavily criticized and accused of not doing enough to help evacuees of the deadly Hurricane Harvey, a spokesperson for the Houston celebrity televangelist’s megachurch has denied they were ever closed to those in need.“We were never closed.
This is crazy,” Lakewood Church spokesman Don Iloff told The Washington Post on Tuesday. “People are saying we’ve locked the church.
The church has been open from the beginning, but it’s not designated as a shelter.”Iloff also explained how the church building itself had been flooded with water getting close to spilling over the facility’s floodgate. »