SPY KIDS Star Urges Followers to Pray for Hurricane Helene Victims, Volunteers
Movieguide® Contributor
SPY KIDS actress Alexa PenaVega is reminding everyone of the power of prayer in the wake of Hurricane Helene.
“Today we got on a call with the Salvation Army team, and we were trying to find out ways that people can help with everything hurricane relief related. I know a lot of people have family members who are affected. It’s just hit so many different people,” she explained on her Instagram story on Monday.
“There’s still a number of areas that are actually unreachable where they can’t even get to it yet ‘cause the conditions are still really dangerous,” she continued. “The media is covering it but not nearly what it should be. Kind of like what happened in Lahaina, and I don’t want these people to get left behind.”
She urged her followers to donate to helpsalvationarmy.org and reassured them that “100%” of donations would go directly to disaster relief.
“Outside of donations, outside of volunteering, I wanted to talk about the power of prayer,” she continued. “I know it might seem like such a casual thing. It’s a word that gets thrown a whole whole lot, but truly coming from experiencing great loss, prayer is powerful, and it really helped our family, and we felt all your prayers. So right now, if you can just be praying for the people who’ve experienced this devastation, the volunteers who are going in there, helping people, just creating new opportunity for these families who have lost everything.”
“Just continue to lift them up and not just now but a month from now when people aren’t really talking about it. They’re still going to be going through restoration. They’re still going to be picking up all these pieces,” she said.
She finished her video with a last call to keep hurricane victims in their “hearts,” “thoughts” and “prayers.”
When the Lahaina fires happened in Hawaii last year, PenaVega was equally outspoken in support of the victims and volunteers.
As of Oct 1, over 100 people in Tennessee are missing after floodwaters from the Hurricane swept in. Meanwhile in Georgia, “hundreds of thousands” have been without electricity.
On Sep. 30, Movieguide® reported on a miraculous rescue in northern Georgia:
Fox Weather meteorologist Bob Van Dillen stopped a live broadcast to rescue an Atlanta woman trapped in her car during Hurricane Helene’s flood waters. Speaking to FOX & FRIENDS from Peachtree Creek in North Atlanta at 7 a.m., Van Dillen heard a woman scream for help from her car, which was surrounded by rising flood waters.
Initially, the reporter called 911 and told the woman that the first responders were coming. The woman continued to call for help. Van Dillen interrupted the live broadcast to carry out a rescue mission, wading into the rushing flood waters and carrying the woman to safety on his back….
“I don’t know how it worked. And it’s like a miracle that the water actually didn’t short circuit all the boards and allowed the window to go down, because it went down like it was no problem, and it went down right into the water. But that allowed the pressure to be equalized and allowed me to pry the door open, unbuckle her seatbelt, put her on me, in my side. It was good to go,” he added when asked why the woman could roll down the window.