GALVESTON, Texas—Two months after Hurricane Ike, Galveston has come a long way.

But there are still thousands of pieces and thousands of lives to put back together.

And there are people there who are still helping with that, long after the government has come and gone.

The first example of their efforts can be found at the corner of Broadway and 51^st Street.

Two church groups, Friend Ships Unlimited and Billy Graham Ministries, are still dishing out hot meals and providing a shoulder to lean on.

“They’re a blessing. Yeah. They’re a blessing,” Randy Coplin said.

Coplin has a home, but it has no walls.  They were ripped out and ruined by Ike’s four-foot flood.

“If I can get insulation in there before it gets cold, I might keep warm this winter,” he said.

“A lot of them have power and stuff back on, but there’s so much mold and stuff, just general yuck in their houses, might be somewhere they are able to cook, but it’s not somewhere you want to sit down and eat a meal,” Murray Douglas of Friend Ships Unlimited said.

Another example can be found in a 20-block line of cars at another food distribution site.

This one is located in the driveway of Alamo Elementary and is manned by Americorps volunteers who hand out food bank water, food and supplies.

They work under the direction of another church group called Good News Galveston.

“It takes a team. And we have some mega-churches that are behind us and we have some little small churches, but they are all powerful and they are all important and they make this thing synergized,” Lee Sims said.

So synergized and energized, in fact, that they plan to keep doing this for a full year.

“It’s not over with. There’s a lot of heartache, a lot of people here that still need some help,” Jack Dowling of the Billy Graham disaster response team said.

“We feel that ultimately the church, the Christian church, is responsible to step in in times like this. The Bible makes that very clear,” he said.

JoAnn Harris, who is still homeless, is one of those in need of that help.

“It’s a blessing what this church has been doing. It’s a long line, but it’s a blessing,” she said.

It’s a blessing Galveston will need for a very long time.