‘Mattress Mack,’ owner of Houston furniture store, offers shelter to residents after winter storm

[Johnboy60]

For Tina Rios, her family and hundreds of other people, shelter from the winter storm that has left much of Houston without power or heat came from an unusual place: a furniture store.

Sitting at one of the many tables on display Wednesday inside Gallery Furniture’s cavernous showroom, Rios, 32, explained how she “started stressing really, really hard” after her suburban Houston mobile home lost power at around 4:30 a.m. on Monday and she, her husband, Eric Bennis, and their three children were soon able to see their breath inside. After spending one frigid night there, they realized they needed to find somewhere warm to wait out the blackout, not so much for the parents, who grew up in New Jersey and are used to cold, but for the children, ages 3, 9 and 10.

‘Mattress Mack,’ owner of Houston furniture store, offers shelter to residents after winter storm | KTLA

 

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[SimplyMe]

We should all strive to follow the Christian example set by Mattress Mack. He did a similar thing during Hurricane Harvey, allowing families whose houses were flooded to stay in his showroom. I even recall a woman talking about how he had donated furniture to her family, after hearing her story while she was staying at his showroom. Also, as noted in the article, he not only opens his showroom, and provides food and water, he also is there personally helping and serving.