“It was a real-life circumstance that was happening, so Kristen and her family live in Tampa, Florida,” Varvel shared. “While we’re filming, Hurricane Helene came through at that time. And I kept asking Kris, ‘[Are] your husband and children okay? Like, is your house going to be there?’”
As the storm reached dangerous levels, Wollett’s family joined her on location in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
“There I am at the hotel,” Varvel explained. “I see Justin, Kristen’s husband, their kids, and they just have this sense of peace and joy, not knowing if or when they go home [or if] their house is still going to be standing.”
Varvel said that seeing their “faith in action ministered to me. It showed me that we serve a God who we can trust, and even when the literal storms of life are going to be beating down on you that we serve a God that we can trust.”
“That’s definitely an element that’s in the show,” Varvel added. “But it was a practical, real-life moment that we all experienced vicariously through their family. And it blessed me so immensely and then challenged me to go deeper in my trust with the Lord.”
New episodes of “Country Rescue,” Season 2, release Thursdays on Great American Pure Flix. The show airs on Sunday nights on the Great American Family channel. All of Season 1 can be streamed on Great American Pure Flix.
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