"I was, like, kind of startled and then basically, 'What's going on? What's that noise? And then, 'There's a fire,'" Vintage Church Pastor Timothy Stewart said.
"I woke up everybody. I got our dogs as fast as we could, went out the back sliding glass door and walked around and got out," he said.
Due to fire and smoke damage, their house is unlivable. They're only left with salvaged pictures and boxes of memories.
Stewart and his family have given back to the community in countless ways, whether that's through Vintage Church or their volunteer work with Love Lodi.
"Not even exaggerating, there's probably been 500 people that have been contacted just through text messages," Stewart's friend Pat Schumacher said. "I've seen probably five other pastors during the morning, come here, just express their condolences and just let them know that they got their support."
"We're called to be a light to this world," Schumacher continued. "One of the ways that we do that is we rally around each other and have a community that's deeper than most people ever experience."
"We can have joy and peace outside of circumstances. That's kind of where we're at right now and so we're just living in that and walking by faith," Stewart continued. "You reap what you sow, kind of, right? We've sown a lot of love and we're reaping that and it's, it's good."
Friends have also created an online fundraiser to help them during this time.
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