COLUMBUS (WCMH) – Central Ohioans answered the call for help on Wednesday, dropping off supplies and donating money to help families devastated by Hurricane Harvey.

By 2pm on Wednesday, a semi-truck was packed full of supplies with more still coming in. NBC4 teamed up with Rock City church, who brought 150 volunteers and organized donations to be driven down to Houston.

“The supplies that you guys are sending are going to be a huge help to families,” said Pastor Jeremy Foster. “They’re going to be a huge help to our communities.”

Jeremy Foster is a pastor at Hope City Church in Houston. It’s one of the many churches Rock City Church has partnered with on the ground in Texas, to deliver supplies to.

Foster said they’ve organized distribution centers and even have people delivering supplies by boat to families in need, as they begin the long road to recovery.

“These hurricane buckets that come in with cleaning supplies, non-perishable food items, personal hygiene products those kinds of things right now are critical,” said Foster.

Everything donated on Wednesday will be headed down to Houston, going to churches like Hope City, who are helping Harvey victims in several communities.

“To see Columbus come together, to see them bringing cleaning supplies, food, water, things we know they need right now. We’re going to get them down there as quick as we can,” said Rock City Church executive director Katie Fisher. “They want to make sure the people in Houston know that people are caring for them. That we’ve been praying for them. We love them. So, it’s just been really neat to see our city come together like this.”

We want to give a huge thank you to our partners for the NBC4 Day of Giving- Rock City Church in Columbus. Church volunteers came out by the dozens to help orchestrate the huge response effort.

Wednesday we filled a semi with more than 1,200 buckets full of food, cleaning supplies and things like toothpaste and body wash. We had to bring in pods for the overflow. Thursday morning the semi will be on its way to Houston to help families in need.

“We filled this truck up way faster than we expected! And, that’s the best problem to have,” said Rock City Pastor Steve Straka. “This is just I think just a testament to the generosity of the city.”

Rock City Church already sent one truck full of supplies to Texas earlier this week. Another goes tomorrow and a third semi will packed soon with all the overflow.

Thank you central Ohio for making this all possible!