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[Also: Football Culture at Christian Colleges | 'Twin Peaks: The Return' ] Also: Football Culture at Christian Colleges | 'Twin Peaks: The Return' | [View online]( [Donate]( [Christianity Today Direct Newsletter]( Thursday, September 21, 2017 INTERVIEW [Q+A: Jonathan Falwell's Caribbean Vacation Turned into Hurricane Relief Ministry]( After Irma disrupted his 25th wedding anniversary, Baptist pastor shares how he got Samaritan's Purse to come to the rescue of St. Martin and why he went right back. Interview by Kate Shellnutt When Jonathan Falwell saw the first signs of what would become Hurricane Irma swirling on the weather map, he moved up the dates of his Caribbean vacation — a surprise trip to St. Martin with his wife for their 25th anniversary — just in case. He never imagined they'd be sleeping on pool loungers in a makeshift hotel shelter, coming face-to-face with the destruction of a category-5 storm, or flying home on a Samaritan's Purse plane. 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